They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

TN17, a giant space rock as big as the Taj Mahal, is hurtling towards Earth at 77,282 km/h, classified as a potentially ...

A BIG asteroid, roughly the size of an aeroplane, is hurtling towards Earth. NASA is tracking its trajectory closely., ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Now, what would happen if a big asteroid was confirmed to be on a collision course impact path with Earth? While our asteroid detection systems are way ahead of our asteroid defense systems ...

This asteroid is certainly worth watching because ... easier to detect or track with infrared facilities—JWST being the biggest of all,” says Julien de Wit, a planetary scientist at the ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

The asteroid — which was initially discovered in December 2024 — is large enough to destroy a whole city, according to scientists Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024.