Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...

Up to 14, possibly “kilometer-class” space rocks could lurk within a long-feared stream of space debris known to drift near Earth ... the risk of being hit by a large asteroid in the Taurid ...

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

Over time, the meteorites that land on Earth will be able to tell the story of events happening 200 million miles away in ...

An asteroid, 2024 ON, comparable in size to the Eiffel Tower, recently captured media attention but posed no actual threat to ...

Scientists have traced the source of more than 70% of meteorites that have hit Earth to specific asteroid families, providing ...

The Taurid Meteoroid Stream, which is possibly responsible for the famous Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impacts, probably doesn't ...

Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, ...

About 66 million years ago, a "planet killer"—a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid—hit Earth. The Chicxulub impact caused a mass extinction on a planetary scale, killing off an estimated 76 percent of ...

(NewsNation) — Scientists say an asteroid known as ... movement and it would have to hit Apophis at exactly the right time to set it on a collision course with Earth. For those worried about ...