As Christmas Eve approaches, a cosmic visitor is set to make its presence known. NASA's eyes are on the skies, tracking the ...

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2020 XR taken on 24 Nov. 2024 by Gianluca Masi at The Virtual ... [+] Telescope Project. An asteroid as wide as the Empire State Building is tall will fly by Earth ...

A time-lapse of images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) showing the aftermath of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally slamming into the asteroid Dimorphos.

An asteroid was pegged to hit Earth “imminently,” according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Fortunately, this one wasn’t big enough to land a team of deep-core dril ...

Isotopes in the fossils of tiny marine organisms that lived at the time suggest that Earth's climate did not swerve in the 150,000 years following the asteroid strikes, according to the new study.