The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is closely monitoring two asteroids expected to pass Earth on 3 October 2024.

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

ON, comparable in size to the Eiffel Tower, recently captured media attention but posed no actual threat to Earth. Despite ...

Any time you see a headline about an asteroid heading towards the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by Earth ...

The massive asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs when it slammed into the earth 66 million years ago was joined by a second ...

In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...

A spacecraft is on its way to visit an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. The Hera craft launched ...