NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

A colossal asteroid, known as 2014 TN17, is set to make a chillingly close pass by Earth this week, marking the nearest ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

For the first time on a global scale, 20 years of observations on Mars have been condensed into a single study led by ...

A once-in-a-lifetime experience; nowhere else in Europe can visitors touch a fragment of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

The majority of asteroids orbit the Sun in the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter ... today's visitors to Earth's doorstep—are at any risk of colliding with our planet in ...

The Curiosity Rover arrived on Mars in 2012 at the Gale Crater, a massive 96-mile-wide (154 km-wide) impact crater formed by the planet's collision ... fatty acids. On Earth, molecules like ...

The chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth has changed yet again, according to scientists. The asteroid, which was first reported in December 2024 and is large enough to destroy an ...

When 2024 YR4 was discovered, there was analysis suggesting a potential collision with Earth on December 22 ... panoramic view of Ogunquit Beach on Mars In 2017, the robotic rover Curiosity ...

Scientists have estimated a one-in-2,700 chance of a Bennu collision with Earth in 2182. Aside from the immediate devastation, the researchers estimated that an impact by a Bennu-sized asteroid ...