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.

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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 ...

You can avoid disaster on this year's frightfully unlucky day if you take precautions, but in 2029, just over four years from now, you might not be so fortunate because a massive asteroid might be on ...

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 ...

After all, the 1,100 ft asteroid was named after the demon serpent who represented pure evil and chaos in ancient Egyptian mythology. This wouldn't have been ideal, as asteroid scientist Ronald ...

The Geminids originate from a "dead" asteroid, rather than a comet. One of the most dramatic astronomical events of the year is scheduled to peak this weekend. The Geminid meteor shower is ...

Isotopes in the fossils of tiny marine organisms that lived at the time suggest that Earth's climate did not swerve in the 150,000 years following the asteroid strikes, according to the new study.

Nostradamus has also predicted that in 2025, a gigantic asteroid, ominously dubbed the “Harbinger of Fate,” will come dangerously close to colliding with Earth. “From the cosmos, a fireball will rise, ...