The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar ...

An asteroid roughly the size of an aeroplane, measuring around 100 feet, is set to make its closest approach to Earth today.

The space rocks, both estimated to be no larger than 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide, impacted Earth within 25,000 years of each ...

If there has ever been a reason to be worried about Friday 13, it is the one coming in 2029 as a giant asteroid that is ...

A car-sized asteroid will pass at about half the distance between Earth and the moon tonight (Dec. 6), concluding a busy week ...

An asteroid streaked past northern Siberia in the middle of the night Tuesday before burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, ...

The asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere at 11:15 a.m. ET over Yakutia in northeastern Siberia, creating a massive fireball.

On Tuesday, a tiny, harmless asteroid was detected early before it was expected to burn up in Earth's atmosphere over Siberia ...

"Asteroids are 'bits of a planet that didn't happen' that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt," ...

Research shows that some of Earth's largest asteroid impacts, despite their destruction, had minimal long-term climate ...

Designated as COWECP5, the asteroid burned up in the atmosphere as it streaked across the Eastern Siberia sky around 11:14 ...

The European Space Agency said that the asteroid, which was about 27.5 inches wide, was seen burning up across the sky on Dec ...