The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Recent discoveries have challenged previous assumptions about the space near Earth, revealing a potential population of ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

It’s quite remarkable that a class of animals that turn up their toes at a bit of pollution could survive the asteroid strike ...

New study finds dinosaurs weren’t declining before asteroid impact; a biased fossil record misled decades of paleontology.

NASA has detected a mysterious object near Jupiter’s orbit, leaving scientists puzzled. The unknown entity could be a new ...

Researchers say the dinosaurs weren’t yet in decline shortly before the extinction event, contradicting previous findings ...

The discovery of 2024 PT5, a small, rocky body dubbed a "minimoon" during its discovery last year, hints at a hidden ...

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...

They’ve concluded that the Earth was built in the same way that you would build a big snowball to make a snowman. The mass that would become our home rolled through planetary debris – rocks floating ...

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary ... 18 million years leading up to the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous ...