Team coverage of strong offshore winds contributing to elevated fire danger during the ongoing Red Flag Warning across ...

During the event, the asteroid's geocentric energy will become negative and remain that way for 56.6 days. In Dunn's simulation, the orbit is shown as the red line, and it only circles about 25% ...

When an asteroid is larger than about 150 meters, or about 490 feet, across and skims past Earth within this area deemed close range, scientists consider it a "potentially hazardous object." ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory.

Last month, the Earth's atmosphere was bombarded by a small, boulder-sized asteroid just hours after it had first been detected, having evaded early impact monitoring systems. The object ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

An asteroid the size of a house is approaching Earth today followed by two other smaller celestial objects. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) issued an alert for the three asteroids ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, two new studies report, including a particularly cataclysmic impact event ...

Yet the event’s infamous impactor was nothing compared with the asteroid that struck Earth ... the impact are also cluttered with a rusty-red iron mineral called siderite, presumably formed ...

The first near-Earth asteroid which is the smallest of the group at around 100 feet across, came within 3.4 million miles of us. The latter, a 170-foot-wide boulder, reached within 2.9 million miles.