It’s a discovery that’s turning science fiction into scientific possibility. NASA says a two-billion-year-old asteroid sample contains a human-like protein Evidence that the building blocks of life ...

A rare visitor from deep space, comet 3I/ATLAS, is now in our solar system. Scientists worldwide are observing this ...

NASA and the International Asteroid Warning Network have launched a global campaign to track comet 3I/ATLAS and strengthen ...

I/ATLAS is set to reach its closest point to the Sun on Wednesday (October 29), at around 11:47 Universal Time (UT). The ...

Contextualizing speed and distance helps set expectations. Around perihelion, 3I/Atlas is moving at roughly 68 km per second. Its closest approach to Earth is about 1.8 AU, near December 19, which is ...

Unraveling the mysteries of how the world might end is fascinating and terrifying. It's a topic that sparks our imagination, ...

The comet, called 3I/ATLAS, is the third known interstellar object that has come through our solar system. As it flies deeper ...

Taylor Swift's new song "Ruin The Friendship" references her high school years in Hendersonville, Tennessee. The track describes a friendship with romantic undertones that Swift regrets not acting ...

Astronomers can usually spot "planet killer" asteroids long before they approach Earth. But what if they can't?

Visualize the catastrophic effects of a massive asteroid impact on Earth.

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

Earth has just acquired a new best friend in space – a small asteroid named 2025 PN7. Not quite a moon, it has been moving in quiet company with our planet for decades, pacing our planet in nearly ...