The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

China’s Tianwen-2 probe operating normally on approach to asteroid China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is operating normally on its way to a near-Earth asteroid ahead of sampling later this year, according ...

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The massive crater is the focus of a week-long discovery event, offering unique tours, stargazing and lectures.

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed to 3.1 percent. This was the highest probability of a strike by an object of ...

Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere. If they’re big enough, they can prove incredibly destructive, like the 60-foot Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over ...

This time last year, the world was gripped by reports that an incoming, nearly 200-feet-wide asteroid had a tiny, tiny chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. The sigh of relief that we weren’t on course ...

Early last year, there was talk that the newly-discovered Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a really small, but probable chance of striking the Moon in 2032. Now, scientists are revealing what might occur if such ...

Most people assume scientists would see a deadly asteroid coming years in advance. In reality, some of the most dangerous objects approach Earth from directions our telescopes struggle to observe.

The telescope's view of a portion of the Virgo Cluster is bombarded by asteroids, captured as tricolored streaks. Credit: RubinObs / NOIRLab / SLAC / NSF / DOE / AURA A new telescope in Chile has ...

A crop of asteroids discovered by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is wowing astronomers, with one of the space rocks spinning at a record-breaking speed. Among the nearly 2,000 asteroids detected ...

Scientists have discovered the fastest-spinning asteroid sized over 0.3 miles in diameter, which is rotating about once every two minutes. Dubbed 2025 MN45, the space rock is some 2,300 feet across ...