If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have discovered a hidden planet-killer asteroid that could pose a threat to ...

While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that ...

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 ...

NASA will deploy cutting-edge technology to better understand the inner workings of 2024 XN1 during its near-Earth passage.

It was confirmed that “planet killer” asteroids Ryugu and Bennu ... come from the same group of asteroids in the inner main asteroid belt.

and killer robots remain in the realm of fiction (at least for now), but we know that asteroids are out there and we know ...

The asteroid impact simulation actually breaks ... might be able to use to help garner more public knowledge on planet-killer asteroids. For now, at least, you can head over to the app yourself ...

According to several preliminary reports, the asteroid posed no danger to the planet and its inhabitants, although it did not go unnoticed by the dazzling light event in the skies over Eastern ...

The asteroid, formally named 2024 XA1, measured about 28 inches across, and had only been spotted a mere 12 hours before it collided with our planet's atmosphere. The European Space Agency (ESA ...

A massive asteroid, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," is set to skim past Earth on December 24 at an astonishing speed ...

In the paper On the sensitivity of Apophis' 2029 Earth approach to small asteroid impacts, Dr Wiegert wrote: "Apophis' current trajectory takes it safely past our planet at a distance of several ...

Sometimes, rocks collide. Astronomers in 2004, discovered an asteroid as big as the Eiffel Tower is tall that is set to fly within 32,000km from the Earth. That is closer than some satellites ...