ESA’s Hera probe captures stunning images of Mars and its moon Deimos during a historic flyby, offering new insights into the ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

Social media platform X went down intermittently on Monday, with owner Elon Musk blaming an unusually powerful cyberattack.

A rare earth element called thorium has been discovered in large quantities in China's Bayan Obo mining complex in the Inner ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

Emporia State University's Peterson Planetarium is all about asteroids in March, with a focus on one asteroid in particular.

Astronomers believe thousands of large undiscovered asteroids, that could cause regional damage, may be in space.

NASA was recently tracking a large asteroid, known as the "city killer," after finding a small chance of it hitting Earth in ...

For a brief moment, asteroid 2024 YR4 had scientists on edge, with its impact probability climbing as high as 2.8%—enough to capture global attention. But thanks to rapid observations and advanced ...