The largest asteroid ever to hit Earth, which slammed into the planet around 2 billion years ago, may have been even more massive than scientists previously thought.

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

An asteroid some six miles (10 kilometers) wide or bigger smashed into Earth and created the Vredefort Crater, in present-day South Africa, some 2 billion years ago, long before even the dinosaurs ...

The world’s largest asteroid impact structure could be buried deep in southern New South Wales in Australia, scientists suspect. The record for the largest known asteroid crater on Earth is ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex mission: Largest asteroid sample ever collected lands on Earth, here's what to know. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft carrying NASA’s first asteroid samples lands in Utah desert.

Chunks of asteroid that could tell us about the earliest days of the 4.5 billion-year-old solar system and the possible origins of water on our planet are set to land in the Utah desert Sunday.

An asteroid almost the size of the London Eye could collide with the earth in just seven years time. The space rock seems to ...

A saucer-shaped capsule parachuted down gently in the Utah desert today, after a years-long journey through space. Its cargo is a precious collection of rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu — the ...

The largest asteroid ever to hit Earth, which slammed into the planet around 2 billion years ago, may have been even more massive than scientists previously thought.

The world’s largest asteroid impact structure could be buried deep in southern New South Wales in Australia, scientists suspect.. The record for the largest known asteroid crater on Earth is ...

Largest asteroid sample ever collected is coming down to Earth Sept. 22, 2023 Updated Fri., Sept. 22, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. MapCam view of Bennu’s north pole from orbit.