The Apophis asteroid has been a subject of fear and fascination ever since its discovery. With its close approach to Earth ...

An asteroid scientists feared would cause havoc by striking the Earth in the year 2032 now has an increased likelihood of ...

The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observations. While a moon impact wouldn't significantly alter ...

There's only one Friday the 13th in 2025. That's good news for people who think it's bad luck. Why the fear? What to know ...

June 12 at 1:30 PM IST – at a mind-boggling speed of 45,529 km/h. The space rock is expected to pass at a distance of 6.9 ...

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 scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

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

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

Small telescopes in Chile are first on Earth to cut through the cosmic noise, peering back more than 13 billion years to the ...

"By studying these planets, we can better understand how planets form in general, a bit like peering into the past of our ...