Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 percent ...

CHICAGO -- A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a "small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, ...

"You can think of it as a cosmic pool game. We might miss the pocket if we don't consider all the variables." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it might hit the moon. KTLA spoke with Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer ...