While most meteor showers originate from comets, the Quadrantids come from asteroid 2003 EH1 — a small asteroid that was ...

This asteroid, designated 2024 UQ ... a small object in a high-probability collision course. However, due to the location of ...

An asteroid just came careening into our atmosphere, burning up in a dramatic fireball over Russia. The asteroid, formally named 2024 XA1, measured about 28 inches across, and had only been ...

If Earth is going to be blown to bits by an asteroid, it'd be nice to have some advance warning – to either do something ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

The European Space Agency said that the asteroid, which was about 27.5 inches wide, was seen burning up across the sky on Dec. 3 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...

A small asteroid, C0WEPC5, entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up over Siberia on December 4, 2024, producing a bright fireball. Detected just hours prior, it highlighted advancements in ...

An asteroid the size of a school bus is heading towards our planet, zipping past us twice as close as our own moon today. The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is one of the first handful of asteroids ...

An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere ... “However, due to the location of the object near the edge of two adjacent fields, the candidate was recognized as a moving object only ...

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.

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.