COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.

The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is closely monitoring two asteroids expected to pass Earth on 3 October 2024.

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

ON, comparable in size to the Eiffel Tower, recently captured media attention but posed no actual threat to Earth. Despite ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

Any time you see a headline about an asteroid heading towards the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by Earth ...

Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren't as many as we thought.

The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...

In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...

You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the ...