The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

Alinda is one of the five largest near-Earth asteroids, coming closer than 9.3 million miles until the year 2200.

Sometimes, it's hard to remember that Earth is constantly being bombarded by literally tons of space debris daily. The larger ...

Don’t space out or you’ll miss it. A once-in-a-generation asteroid broader than the width of Manhattan will be passing by the Earth — and there’s a chance you can see it for yourself.

This means that, despite passing within touching distance on the solar system scale, there is absolutely no chance of the Christmas Eve asteroid hitting Earth. And while that is good news for ...

Watch the full episode: Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but there are a few with very real chances of making ...

An asteroid around the size of a refrigerator was spotted hours before it hit Earth’s atmosphere, and while it wasn’t dangerous, it marked the fifth time in history an asteroid was detected ...

The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.

It is the finding of scientists that indicates the much bigger impact about 3.3 billion years ago-most likely aiding life to thrive-throwing into yet another perspective that space rocks had in the ...

Even if they were PHAs, this classification doesn't necessarily mean an asteroid is actually at risk of hitting our planet ... into one that has a chance of impacting Earth.