Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently made a final observation of asteroid 2024 YR4 before it drifted out of range. This ...

Amazon's next group of Kuiper satellites could soon reach orbit, propelling the company closer to providing internet to ...

Seventy percent of meteorites that hit Earth today can be traced back to only three families of asteroids a finding that overturns decades of hypotheses regarding the randomness of cosmic rubble and ...

NASA is preparing for a potential asteroid impact, and a recent study has revealed some startling information about what’s ...

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University of Arizona planetary scientist Amy Mainzer, an expert on near-Earth asteroids ... hitting Earth then, but depending on precisely when and where Bennu makes its close approach, our ...

Standing in front of a giant projected bar graph, he solemnly explained the possible fate of the world's most powerful eye on ...

NASA reports a 250-ft building-sized asteroid, 2015 XR1, is passing Earth today at an incredible speed of 45,529 km/h.

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where ...

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers claim in a new study.

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...