In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically ...

A YouTube channel has recently released a video that aims to compare a wide range of asteroids. The smallest starts at just ...

A small asteroid, known as 2025 TF, flew over Antarctica on October 1, 2025, at an altitude of only 266 miles.

Astronomers can usually spot "planet killer" asteroids long before they approach Earth. But what if they can't?

An asteroid approximately the size of two and a half chinchillas impacted the Earth above Siberia, Russia, on Tuesday, ...

Astronomers have discovered a small asteroid that has been quietly accompanying Earth on its journey around the sun for the ...

The massive space rock is about 890 feet in size — more than double the size of the Empire State Building in New York City Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has ...

A large asteroid is headed towards Earth – and could collide with us in just a few years. Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, the nearly 200-foot space rock could hit just before Christmas of 2032, ...

The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...

The 2025 PN7 is Earth's newly confirmed quasi-moon, a tiny asteroid (approx. 19m wide) that orbits the Sun in sync with our ...