It is expected to fly past Earth at a distance of 7,280,000 kilometres, ensuring a safe passage without any threat of ...

Earth about to pull tiny space rock into its orbit as temporary ‘mini moon’, scientists say - Space rock to orbit Earth for ...

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

On September 4 2024, astronomers discovered an asteroid, 1 meter in diameter, heading towards Earth. The space rock would ...

Around 4 billion years ago, an enormous asteroid that was at least 10 times larger than the space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs smashed into Jupiter's massive icy moon, Ganymede. The cataclysmic ...

The "God of Chaos" asteroid may indeed be on a collision course with our planet, according to a chilling update to previous predictions that brushed off the risk - but it's still really ...

"This asteroid is only the ninth that mankind has ever discovered before its impact." However, it was harmless for the Earth, they say. The US Catalina Sky Survey program, which looks out for ...

The asteroid — about 3 feet (1 meter) across — was spotted by astronomers in Arizona and broke apart over the coast of the Philippines hours after the discovery. This space rock, dubbed 2024 ...

On Wednesday (Sept. 4), astronomers spotted a never-before-seen asteroid, 2024 RW1, around eight hours before it entered Earth's atmosphere. The "harmless" space rock quickly burned up as ...

The colossal asteroid known as "God of Chaos" might be on a collision course with Earth with an arrival date of Friday the 13th, according to an astronomer. 99942 Apophis was discovered in 2004 ...