New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published today by ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

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

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A ...

A 17-foot asteroid, roughly the size of an airplane, will approach Earth on October 4. Named 2024 TF, it will pass by at a ...

In 2022, a probe was sent crashing into an asteroid as part of a “planetary defence” test. This Monday, the second part of ...

Meandering between Mars and Jupiter, an asteroid named Psyche holds an estimated worth of a staggering $10,000 quadrillion.

Ants started farming 66 million years ago in the aftermath of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, a new study suggests ...

When humans began farming crops thousands of years ago, agriculture had already been around for millions of years. In fact, ...

Prof Alan Fitzsimons is an astronomer from Queen’s University Belfast and has been assisting with the asteroid mission for ...

Two asteroids, 2024 TE (car-sized) and 2024 SR4 (aircraft-sized), are on an Earth-approach path today. Will it have any ...