Astronomers from the University of New Mexico, along with U.S. and international researchers, have confirmed the existence of ...

Keeping Earth safe from asteroids isn’t just spotting them – it’s also helping people understand what a high-impact ...

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite living near the impact site in Mexico.

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 ...

The next big space threat isn't to Earth. It's to the Moon.

This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...