A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...

Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...

Up to 14, possibly “kilometer ... debris known to drift near Earth. However, a recent hunt for large asteroids within the Taurid Swarm, dubbed the “Doomsday” asteroid swarm, revealed fewer ...

New research indicates that the Taurid swarm contains fewer large asteroids than anticipated, suggesting a lower threat level ...

Recently discovered asteroid 2023 DW has been predicted to have a close encounter with Earth on Feb. 14, 2046. See NASA's ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors and landslides that totally change the asteroid's surface. When you ...

The asteroids will not be visible from Earth, but scientists may be able to capture radar images of the ... per hour and ...

Four "potentially hazardous" space rocks, which are between 100 and 580 feet across, will all make their closest approaches ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX mission is on its way to the asteroid to better understand how the rock may be transformed by its close encounter with our planet. If it were to hit Earth—which it won’t ...

The asteroid that hit Earth some 3.26 billion years ago was many times the size of Mount Everest. Credit: AGU Every single day about 100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles fall through Earth's ...

Landslides and tremors may transform the asteroid Apophis during its 2029 brush with Earth, according to a new study. Named after Apep, the ancient Egyptian god of chaos, Apophis is a 1,100-foot-long ...