Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

Oct. 8 (UPI) --International space agencies say an asteroid zipped by Earth closer than a large number of satellites currently in orbit, but was not detected until hours later. The European Space ...

Earth has a near miss—twice—after two small asteroids seemingly passed alarmingly close to the planet, less than two days apart, one of them going completely unnoticed until hours after it had already ...

Another asteroid zoomed near Earth's vicinity the next day. An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, according to space agencies. The space object, named 2025 TF, zoomed over ...

A small, giraffe-size asteroid called 2025 TF came closer to Earth than some satellites on Wednesday (Oct. 1), stunning astronomers who first spotted it hours later. Measuring an estimated 3.3 to 9.8 ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

In a plan ripped straight from the script of the 1998 movie "Armageddon," scientists have suggested a simple, if violent, method of dealing with a troublesome asteroid. Just nuke it. But in this case, ...

We might go full “Armageddon” on asteroid 2024 YR4. After mulling several different solutions, scientists have devised an unconventional method to stop the “city killer” space rock from hitting the ...

An asteroid that scientists initially feared might pose a risk to Earth may could instead strike the moon in 2032, according to the European Space Agency, but some scientists are suggesting it could ...