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 ...

Kevin Anderton, Kansas City-based science reporter and graphic artist ... Hubble Space Telescope was able to get a good look at an asteroid known as Psyche. In that study, it was discovered ...

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.

An early warning system that could give Earth a week'snotice or more before a space rock destroyed a city would cost only $1 millionper observatory, its leading proponent suggests. Given current ...