Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...

The "parade of planets" in the evening sky continues. Starting the evening of Feb. 22, Mercury will join the lineup but it ...

Artist's conception of the DART spacecraft approaching the Didymos asteroid system before deflecting the Dimorphos moonlet ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...

On Oct. 20, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On Sept. 4, 2023, as it passed by the earth en route to asteroid Apophis, it dropped off a capsule carrying that ...

Asteroid Bennu’s samples contain pristine salts, hinting at ancient briny environments that could have formed organic ...

Elon Musk is reportedly brushing off concerns about his conflicts of interest between ‘DOGE,’ which is supposedly tasked to ...

YR4 asteroid has a 1-in-45 chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While the risk is low, monitoring continues to assess the impact threat.

Astronomers are closely tracking Asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small but notable chance of colliding with Earth in 2032.

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Imagine a future where deep space explorers send high-definition video messages from the surface of Mars, or where scientific ...