The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling ...

Incredible footage has captured the moment an asteroid smashed through Earth's atmosphere over Siberia ... showing the asteroid bursting into a ball of flames before disappearing into the abyss.

The Alinda asteroid will be visible with binoculars in a 'once in a decade' event as it brushes past Earth, with its return ...

However, NASA officials say there is a roughly 1 in 11.5 million chance of the lost asteroid crashing into Earth in October of 2024. If it does hit Earth, the asteroid would detonate with the ...

Doorbell cameras aren’t just for busting home invaders and porch pirates. A Ring camera captured the sound of a meteorite ...

This asteroid, which measures between 65 to 147 feet in diameter, will zoom past our planet at a distance of 18 lakh kilometres. Moving at a brisk pace of 22,400 kilometres per hour, its closest ...

This apocalyptic object, the Chicxulub impactor, slammed into the sea just off the coast of modern-day Mexico. From it, shock waves, earthquakes and megatsunamis splattered out, plunging the planet ...

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Several factors contributed to the survival of crocodiles, turtles, lizards and birds 66 million years ago, say our readers ...

Alinda has made its closest approach to our planet in decades, and it's about to peak in brightness in a rare ...

Some space conspiracy theories just won't go away.

Hera, which was blasted into ... asteroid moon Dimorphos and changed its trajectory, as the first test of “kinetic impactor” technology designed to deflect asteroids. Asteroid impacts on Earth ...