Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

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

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

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

A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...

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 ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu hint that some of life’s ingredients were forming long before Earth existed. NASA’s ...

There was a time when the planet was crawling with enormous dinosaurs, the next, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit, and life ...

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

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

I break down scientific models showing what could happen if a large asteroid struck Earth.

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...