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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The massive asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs when it slammed into the earth 66 million years ago was joined by a second ...

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published today by ...

ESA’s Hera mission will study a rock called Dimorphos, which was blasted by NASA, to work out how successful that approach ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A ...