NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has been firing its electric thrusters almost without a break since Sept. 28, and the agency says it ...

A decades-long mystery beneath the North Sea has finally been solved. Scientists have confirmed that the Silverpit Crater, ...

On Friday, April 13, 2029, asteroid Apophis will sweep just 19,400 miles above Earth — closer than geostationary satellites — and be visible to the naked eye.

A giant asteroid named Apophis is set to make its unusual close encounter to Earth in exactly 900 days. On Friday, April 13, ...

Astronomers using fresh data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have uncovered an asteroid that defies usual planetary ...

NASA's DART spacecraft collided with the asteroid Dimorphos at a speed of approximately 6 km/s. This was the first experiment ...

New simulations reveal the one option left when warning time runs out—and it’s nuclear.

Tiny samples from asteroid Bennu are rewriting scientists' understanding of how our Solar System formed. New evidence suggests that Bennu was born where material from the inner and outer Solar System ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved naming an asteroid after musician and actor 'Weird' Al Yankovic.

We now have a clearer picture of what happened in the decades following the asteroid impact that led to the extinction of almost all dinosaurs ...

A building-sized asteroid will coincidentally fly by Earth during September’s supermoon and partial lunar eclipse early Wednesday morning, offering a celestial show full of events, and NASA is ...

Crocodile relatives largely followed warm climates for 245 million years, expanding toward the poles during hotter periods. Fossil records and climate simulations suggest tropical refuges could have ...