Researcher Noemí Pinilla-Alonso explained that the composition is uncharacteristic of objects near Neptune. Its gaseous and ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was impacted by NASA DART mission. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li ...

ALBAWABA - A small asteroid, named "C0WEPC5," crashed into the Earth's atmosphere on Tuesday morning. According to media sources, astronomers could not detect it before it disintegrated in the ...

The Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona was also credited with identifying the fast-moving asteroid ahead of its arrival. Video posted to social media on Tuesday shows the bright fireball ...

Asteroid 2024 XN1, a space rock the size of about a 10-story building, is fast approaching planet Earth with a velocity of 14,743 miles per hour, or 23726.5 kilometers per hour.

An asteroid the size of a school bus is heading towards our planet, zipping past us twice as close as our own moon today. The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is one of the first handful of asteroids ...

An airplane-sized asteroid, 2024 XN1, will safely pass Earth on Christmas Eve at a distance of 4.48 million miles. NASA's Asteroid Watch dashboard tracks such near-Earth objects. Recently, a smaller ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of life on Earth forever? It is widely agreed that such an object -- 10 kilometers across -- struck just off the coast of the ...