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Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

New research reveals mammals were abandoning trees millions of years before the asteroid hit changing everything we know ...

The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to ...

Despite previous research, Earth's long-gone mega-reptiles probably weren't dying off before an impact winter did them in for ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...