NASA planetary defence experts simulate catastrophic asteroid impact scenarios with a 72% Earth strike probability, as ESA's ...

Sooner or later, a sizable asteroid could impact a populated area on Earth. How is the US, and the world, preparing?

ESA says there is no impact risk after refined tracking; the virtual telescope project is streaming the flyby from tuscany.

The fear of an asteroid collision sometimes haunts our imagination, especially after the cataclysmic event that eradicated the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But what is the actual probability ...

Two decades after Silverpit was discovered, Nicholson and colleagues revisited the controversy almost by chance. In 2022, fresh off the discovery of the Nadir Crater off West Africa, the team received ...

NASA is tracking an airplane-sized asteroid that's due to zip past Earth tomorrow at around 28,600 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The ...

A ONCE-in-a-millennium mega asteroid will be visible to billions without the need for any equipment as it glides past Earth.

The label "space rock" feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window to get someone's attention. A rock holds down your picnic blanket to keep it ...

Since its discovery in 1999, the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has captivated scientists as a time capsule from the early solar system — and also as a key to possibly understanding the origins of life. To ...

The Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar took a series of 28 images of asteroid 1997 QK1 on Aug. 21, 2025. - NASA / JPL-Caltech The label "space rock" feels like an understatement for ...

A building-sized asteroid, classified as 'potentially hazardous', will make a close flyby of Earth this week, and you can watch the event through a household telescope or via a free online livestream.

An illustration of the asteroid impact that struck Chesapeake Bay. Nicolle Rager-Fuller, NSF Around 35 million years ago, a small asteroid traveling at 40,000 miles per hour (64,373 kilometers per ...