Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

A new study has concluded that Earth's mini-moons may not have come from the asteroid belt as we once thought, but a source ...

NASA warns of asteroid 2025 HY2, the size of a Boeing, approaching Earth on May 7 at 48,900 kilometres per hour.

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...

JX8 is moving towards Earth and is classified as potentially hazardous. Should we be worried? With an estimated diameter ...

They’ve concluded that the Earth was built in the same way that you would build a big snowball to make a snowman. The mass that would become our home rolled through planetary debris – rocks floating ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ...

The Eta Aquariids are the debris left by a comet called 1P/Halley, or Halley's Comet, which comes around every 76 years. Its ...