A stony, S-type asteroid that orbits the sun every 324 days and comes close to Earth every decade, Apophis hit the headlines after a paper was published that calculated that it could strike Earth ...

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent impact monitoring systems during its approach to our planet. However ...

A “city killer” asteroid the size of the Empire State Building ... Astronomers gave a 2.7% chance of a direct hit. In 2021, NASA ruled that out after calculations refined its orbit, but ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory. When you purchase ...

Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses), will rendezvous with the asteroid in February 2029. Apophis is 340 meters ...

TL;DR: An asteroid was detected only two hours before it entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded over the Pacific Ocean, bypassing detection systems. A network of four telescopes identified an ...

A lot would have to go wrong for the asteroid’s trajectory to change in a way that would put it on a collision course with our planet. That said, objects around Apophis’ size hit our planet ...

If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses), will rendezvous with the asteroid in February 2029. Apophis is 340 meters ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of a small city hit Earth. The impact of this asteroid brought about a global extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. Earth is in constant ...