An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

“It’s the closest that an asteroid this large has ever come to the Earth,” says Chodas, manager of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, located in Pasadena, California.

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our asteroid-sleuthing telescopes are working. "These things come through on a ...

Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.

Forget the Eclipse, the 'Largest' Asteroid Ever Tracked by NASA Is About to Roar Past Earth In a report cited by NPR, an impact from an asteroid of Apophis' size could kill 10 million people.

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA has successfully returned a 250-gram sample of dirt from a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. Scientists around the world will study the rock particles to see ...

As Euronews notes, those vast swathes contain some of the largest cities on Earth ... claiming the crown as the "'riskiest' asteroid ever detected." "As more observations of the asteroid are ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

the highest ever recorded for an object of its size, per NASA’s official blog. However, as of Friday, Feb. 20, NASA has decreased its risk assessment to 0.28%. This also means that the asteroid ...

An asteroid big enough to wipe out an entire city crashed to Earth 50,000 years ago in what is now northern Arizona. It left a crater that was three quarters of a mile wide and 600 feet deep.