The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

"It's been a subject of debate for more than 30 years — were dinosaurs doomed and already on their way out before the asteroid hit?" study lead author Chris Dean, a paleontologist at University ...

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck.

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday, May 9. And if you're interested, you could see it happen in real time, ...

New study finds dinosaurs weren’t declining before asteroid impact; a biased fossil record misled decades of paleontology.

More than a century of fossils pulled from the ground told a straightforward story: dinosaurs thrived, then declined, then vanished in a fiery cataclysm 66 million years ago. The idea is that ...

In 2022, NASA scientists successfully nudged an asteroid off its course, shortening its orbit by 32 minutes as part of the ...

JX8 will come within 2.6 million miles (4.2 million kilometers) of Earth, but ... More beyond the moon (not pictured here in ...

An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...