Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

New research based on samples from asteroid Ryugu reveals that phosphorus-rich compounds could explain how Earth became ...

Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...

D: Iron in the ocean (from the ocean circulation, from the impactor itself, and from erosion), along with nutrients (like ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...

At that time, the rock reached a minimum distance of 3.4 million miles (5.5 million km) from Earth. This is also the ...

Earlier on September 4, an asteroid just one metre wide entered the atmosphere as a brilliant fireball. Named 2024 RW1, the ...

Saturn seems to have snatched its first known Trojan asteroid, designated 2019 UO14, a few thousand years ago as the space ...

Sometimes, getting hit by a space rock is a good thing. The asteroid which struck Earth 66 million years ago wiped the ...

Gaseous giant Saturn seems to have snatched its first known Trojan asteroid “2019 UO14” when the space rock was “bouncing” ...