The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

The impact of the asteroid 66 million years ago did not stop life from returning to normal for very long. New research shows ...

Learn how the emergence of new plankton species started life's swift recovery after the asteroid impact that killed most ...

The asteroid impact that ended the age of dinosaurs was powerful enough to reshape life on Earth, but some questions remain ...

For the first time, humanity has proved it can deliberately shove a small world off course. NASA’s Double Asteroid ...

This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...

The findings are a big clue as to why the far and near hemispheres of the moon look so different.

Researchers have also suggested that an asteroid impact triggered the moon’s lopsidedness. Now, lunar rock and soil samples seem to support this theory.

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no danger to the planet.

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...

In a new study in Geology, researchers calculated how long it took for novel single-celled marine species to appear after the asteroid impact, and it’s surprisingly fast.