At 900 meters, the giant crater in southern China is three times larger than the previous Holocene recorder holder.

Asteroid 2025 VP1 is hurtling through space at more than 18,300 miles per hour, the space agency has reported.

New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.

The discovery was confirmed by the Minor Planet Center, the world’s official authority for verifying new asteroid findings ...

The Planetary Defence System of the ESA earlier identified the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid. The current tally since the ESA ...

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the ...

European Space Agency says milestone highlights both Earth’s vulnerability and advances in planetary-defense science - ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

NASA's stunning radar images reveal asteroid 2025 OW, a tiny object spinning incredibly fast, challenging current scientific ...

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." ...

That day is the center of “Impact: The End of the Age of the Dinosaurs,” a new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. “There’s no doubt — well, arguably at least — that ...