Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant ... In ancient Egyptian art, Apophis was frequently portrayed as a massive serpent, embodying chaos and darkness.

It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans, drove global darkness for years to decades, and stoked unimaginable tsunamis (thousands of meters deep ...

An international team has successfully demonstrated that 70% of all known meteorite falls originate from just three young asteroid families ... combined with state-of-the-art computer simulations ...

When an asteroid is larger than about 150 meters, or about 490 feet, across and skims past Earth within this area deemed close range, scientists consider it a "potentially hazardous object." ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

A strange Earth shines in new imagery captured by a European asteroid mission. The Hera spacecraft ... Besides being ...

The asteroid, named (2024 UQ1), measures between 25.3 feet and 55.8 feet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), but is likely to be ...

The first near-Earth asteroid which is the smallest of the group at around 100 feet across, came within 3.4 million miles of us. The latter, a 170-foot-wide boulder, reached within 2.9 million miles.

Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating with a spacecraft in deep space, ahead of its Odin mission that's set to ...

Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, two new studies report, including a particularly cataclysmic impact event ...

This historic discovery was made possible by a telescopic survey of the composition of all the major asteroid families in the main belt, combined with state-of-the-art computer simulations of the ...