Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

Psyche is often said to be worth around £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 based on estimates of how much metal it may contain. This ...

The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution of the debris cloud created by the smash-up over the course of a month; ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

The chalk asteroid is from the Omega Sidewalk sector. JR asks Roo to activate the asteroid deflector wheel, which gives the Scouts a few different choices to push the asteroid off its current path and ...

Friday the 13th is approaching, and it will happen three times this year. Here are historical origins of the superstition and notable events.

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

Scientists already knew this could be a doozy. Astronomers previously estimated if 2024 YR4 hits the moon, it could form a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will have narrow viewing windows on February 18 and 26 to gather crucial data on the ...

A 60-meter-wide asteroid, 2024 YR4, could collide with the Moon in December 2032, offering scientists an unprecedented chance ...

A new scientific study reveals that life recovered much faster than expected after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.