Images from NASA show the exterior and interior scan of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu on a mission in 2020.

Residents in Northeast Cleveland heard a loud explosion the morning of St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2026. So, was it an actual meteor?

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NASA’s DART mission successfully altered an asteroid’s orbit, but scientists now say the impact also shifted the path of the ...

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Even slightly changing the orbit of an object heading toward Earth can move it out of the collision path. | Credit: Illustration by Stephen Kelly / / Shutterstock NASA crashed a spacecraft into an ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission not only altered an asteroid’s orbit but, for the first time, a new study shows we also successfully changed the asteroids' path around the sun.

The Silverpit crater mystery in the North Sea appears to have been solved. Scientists say it was formed by an asteroid 43 million years ago.

Picture a space rock the size of a football pitch crashing into the North Sea's shallow seabed 43 to 46 million years ago.

A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite crashes through the roof of a house in Georgia, revealing clues about the origin of the Solar System.

NASA said earlier this month that an asteroid that at one point had a 4% chance of hitting the moon will miss the lunar object in 2032.