On a long enough timescale, an asteroid, comet, or other impactor will come calling, and it’s crucial that we’re ready when ...

But scientists monitoring Apophis, also known as asteroid 99942, have concluded that Earth would be dodging this whizzing frozen mud bullet for at least another 100 years. Phew, that's lucky.

According to the reports presented by various online sources, today, an asteroid named 2024 XS3 will make a close pass by Earth. Don’t worry- - it won’t hit us! NASA has confirmed that it’s ...

Get ready for a close call as asteroid 2024 XS3, a massive 84-foot space rock, is heading straight for Earth tomorrow. But don’t panic – NASA assures us there is absolutely no risk of collision. This ...

A time-lapse of images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) showing the aftermath of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally slamming into the asteroid Dimorphos.

Since Chiron possesses characteristics of both an asteroid and a comet, it makes it rich for studying many processes that could assist in understanding them, she says. "What is unique about Chiron ...

The Geminids originate from a rocky asteroid called 3200 Phaethon with a comet-like orbit and were first observed in 1862. Dr Minjae Kim, a research fellow in the physics department at the ...

Astronomers analyzing archival images from JWST have discovered an unexpectedly vast population of the smallest asteroids ever seen in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The newfound ...

First discovered in 2004, the titanic space rock known as Apophis was estimated in 2017 to have a 2.7% chance of striking Earth in 2029. Any chance of an impact in 2029 was ruled out by more ...

A huge asteroid with is set to fly past Earth on Friday the 13th in 2029 - at a distance of less than 20,000 miles. The massive 1,000-metre-wide cosmic projectile is 28 times bigger than the ...