Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the ...

Asteroid 2025 VP1 is hurtling through space at more than 18,300 miles per hour, the space agency has reported.

Recently discovered asteroid 2023 DW has been predicted to have a close encounter with Earth on Feb. 14, 2046. See NASA's ...

At 900 meters, the giant crater in southern China is three times larger than the previous Holocene recorder holder.

A couple captured the sound of a meteorite hitting Earth for first time ever - on their home security camera. Laura Kelly and ...

New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.

When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

The Planetary Defence System of the ESA earlier identified the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid. The current tally since the ESA ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.