Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that makes a close pass to Earth every six years or so. Scientists believe Bennu might have broken off from a much larger carbon-rich asteroid about 700 million ...

Weird Al now has a mile-wide asteroid named after him — and the scientist behind it says his songs launched her career.

Platinum asteroid mining looks compelling — until the numbers hit. Discover why platinum needs a 28x price rise and where ...

Scientists are narrowing down the type of space rock that caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, and ...

McGetchin crater on the Moon is the largest newly-formed crater seen in our Solar System. It was found by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Tiny feathers encased in fossilized poop are helping scientists understand why some birds made it through the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs and others did not. Unearthed in Montana, the ...

Artist’s concept of an asteroid near Earth. Experts found a small asteroid hour before it impacted Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean near Australia on Sunday, September 6, 2026. The object ...

An asteroid with the potential to trigger a catastrophic event will pass Earth at an alarmingly close distance, prompting NASA to classify the space rock as "hazardous". The asteroid, named Apophis ...

The only event equal to the potential of this is the extinction of dinasours -Credit:Getty Images/Stocktrek Images An asteroid with the potential to trigger a catastrophic event will pass Earth at a ...

When you step inside what’s billed as the world’s largest geode, the first impression is chaos. The Crystal Cave—found nearly 40 feet belowground on Ohio’s South Bass Island, in the western basin of ...

Readers of a certain age will remember a golden era of asteroid films, capped by two with very different endings. "Deep Impact" drove home the devastating consequences of letting a large piece of rock ...

Scientists have spent decades debating what killed the dinosaurs. Some say volcanoes triggered the dinosaurs’ decline a million years before the infamous asteroid hit 66 million years ago. Others say ...