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NASA reveals images of enormous, snowman-shaped asteroid 2024 ON after its ultra-close approach to EarthNew close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely past our planet on Sept. 17.
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Earth once wore a Saturn-like ring, study of ancient craters suggestsThe ring could be responsible for a prolonged drop in temperatures millions of years ago.
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Earth's new 'mini-moon' will orbit our planet for the next 2 monthsA tiny asteroid will orbit around our planet for 53 days from the end of September.
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'Potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of a skyscraper to skim past Earth on TuesdayThe gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a skyscraper, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by 2.6 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
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'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis could still hit Earth in 2029, study hints — but we won't know for 3 more yearsNew simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a collision course with Earth by another asteroid before it flies past our planet in 2029.
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Asteroid slams into Earth triggering stunning green 'fireball' above the Philippines — 8 hours after it was 1st spottedOn 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 predicted, creating a bright green streak across the night sky before spectacularly exploding.
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Fallout from NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission could hit Earth — potentially triggering 1st human-caused meteor showerA new study suggests that millions of tiny space rock fragments, which were ejected from the 2022 collision between asteroid Dimorphos and NASA's DART spacecraft, may be on a collision course with Earth and Mars.
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Dinosaur-killing asteroid was a rare rock from beyond Jupiter, new study revealsScientists have uncovered the "genetic fingerprint" of the dinosaur-killing Chicxulub impactor, potentially revealing the fateful rock's origins in the outer reaches of our solar system.
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$100,000 quadrillion asteroid Psyche may be rusting, James Webb telescope revealsA new James Webb Space Telescope analysis of the giant, metal-rich asteroid Psyche reveals signs of hydration in the form of rust. This could help pin down the mysterious rock's origins.
