Today, an asteroid larger than Manhattan – large enough it could end civilization, or at least wreck a country – is casually ...

Alinda has made its closest approach to our planet in decades, and it's about to peak in brightness in a rare ...

"it's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter million miles ...

Asteroid 2024 XN1, a space rock the size of about a 10-story building, is fast approaching planet Earth with a velocity of 14 ...

Sometimes, it's hard to remember that Earth is constantly being bombarded by literally tons of space debris daily. The larger ...

The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

An asteroid around the size of a refrigerator was spotted hours before it hit Earth’s atmosphere, and while it wasn’t dangerous, it marked the fifth time in history an asteroid was detected ...

NASA has warned that a giant asteroid the size of a 10-story building will be whizzing right past us tonight. dimazel - stock.adobe.com Are we about to get Jingle Bell rock-ed? Santa Claus isn’t ...

The comet comes from the Oort Cloud, a remote region at the outer edge of the solar system that is believed to contain the ...

Joe Velaidum can't help but wonder what could have happened if he'd lingered outside his front door for just a couple of ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A “lost asteroid” that hasn’t been seen since it was first discovered in 2007 has ...

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the ...