BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

One Alabama woman was rudely awoken from a nap in 1954 when a meteorite came through her roof and hit her, leaving a big bruise.

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

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EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary ...

BJ's closest approach to Earth will be about 220,000 miles (354,000 kilometers) way. The space rock is ~68 feet (21 meters) ...

Why does a rocket have to go 25,000 mph (about 40,000 kilometers per hour) to escape Earth? – Bo H., age 10, Durham, New Hampshire There’s a reason why a rocket has to go so fast to escape Earth.

Asteroid (887) Alinda came closest to our planet on Wednesday, January 8, being the closest to Earth in decades and the last until 62 years from now (2087). Despite reaching its closest moment and ...

A mountain-sized asteroid will be visible from Earth this weekend in a "once in a decade" event. The massive space rock zoomed past Earth earlier this month, but it is not out of view just yet and ...

Larger than 99 per cent of known space rocks, the asteroid ranks among the five largest celestial objects expected to come within 15 billion kilometres of Earth from now until 2200. Jake Foster, a ...

Scientists were today warning of a possible asteroid collision with the Earth. An asteroid around two-thirds of a mile wide (1.2km) could hit the earth on March 21, 2014 and has been classified as ...