An asteroid the size of a bus exploded that Oct. 28 as it entered Earth's atmosphere over an isolated part of Indonesia. The burst of the 33-foot-long (10 meters) rock packed the equivalent of ...

A CHILLING graphic shows how an asteroid the size of a football pitch could be on course to smash into Earth at Christmas time in seven years. Scientists say the enormous space rock is between 40 ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ... carbon-rich molecules such as methanal (formaldehyde) — a simple compound that was found in the Bennu samples.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday. Don’t worry: There’s no chance of it hitting us since it will pass seven ...