A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

“Our findings suggest that the risk of being hit by a large asteroid in the Taurid swarm is much lower than we believed, ...

However, a recent hunt for large asteroids within the Taurid Swarm, dubbed the “Doomsday” asteroid swarm, revealed fewer than astronomers expected. “Fortunately, we found that it’s likely ...

How was it that this miscellaneous group of small and vulnerable creatures – including our ancestors – survived doomsday? The ...

The Taurid Meteoroid Stream, which is possibly responsible for the famous Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impacts, probably doesn't hide a civilization-killing asteroid. When you purchase through links ...

When an asteroid is larger than about 150 meters, or about 490 feet, across and skims past Earth within this area deemed close range, scientists consider it a "potentially hazardous object." ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

Sooner or later a doomsday asteroid will wipe out most life on Earth—unless, that is, we prevent threatening space rocks from hitting us in the first place ...

A small international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed that asteroid 2019 UO14 is a Trojan asteroid of Saturn. The team has posted a paper describing their study of the ...