Hidden behind a strip mall and headed by a rock star paleontologist, the Edelman explores South Jersey's place in history as ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

The artistic style is similar to Ren and Stimpy, mixed with early web cartoons. It has that “ugly on purpose” look going on, ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the 'devastating' effects of nearby supernova explosions, a new study suggests. Researchers say these super-powerful blasts ...

Previous studies have also demonstrated potential links between space travel and an increase in oxidative stress, which experts have suggested contributes to aging and, in turn, graying hair. However, ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

As part of this, the research team calculated the supernova rate within 20 parsecs of the Sun, or approximately 65 light-years, and compared this with the approximate rate of mass extinction events on ...

Sue Nelson explores how asteroids can inform our understanding of the Earth's past ... "The really big ones, like the 10km (6.21 mile) [wide] or so asteroid that we think led to the extinction ...