The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

Psyche is often said to be worth around £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 based on estimates of how much metal it may contain. This is based on its calculated size, around 226 kilometres wide, and its ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

Astronomers do not know where thousands of “city-killer” asteroids are, Nasa’s head of planetary defence has admitted.

While the technology still needs significant work, a new analysis of meteorites points to valuable targets in the solar ...

A top astronomer responsible for defending the Earth against asteroids has revealed what keeps her up at night — thousands of “city killer” space rocks that remain undetected. Dr Kelly Fast, NASA’s ...

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.