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

The Taurid asteroids, also known as the Taurid swarm, are a group is asteroids hypothesized to be leftovers chunks from the ...

We took advantage of a rare opportunity when this swarm of asteroids passed closer to Earth, allowing us to more efficiently ...

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

A woman's house in Washington was surrounded by nearly 100 raccoons, she's been feeding them for years and said they have gotten more aggressive.

Astronomers have some reassuring news about a possible asteroid threat near our planet: there aren’t as many dangerous ...

A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft ...

Every year, the Earth is treated to several meteor showers as we cross into their orbit, or they cross into ours. They are ...

It’s been almost 25 years since Bruce Willis, playing the fictional character Harry Stamper in the blockbuster movie, Armageddon, saved Earth from an asteroid careering towards the planet.

Two years after a NASA spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, another mission to map the space rock is about to launch. The data it collects will refine Earth’s planetary defences ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

It turns out these insects have been some of the world’s tiniest farmers for 66 million years, thanks in part to the asteroid that struck Earth and set off a chain of events that led to the ...