Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...

Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll ...

The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...

A recently discovered, sizable asteroid may come within striking distance of Earth in less than eight years. But although the ...

The European Space Agency is monitoring an asteroid with a slim chance to strike Earth in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was found ...

The asteroid is unlikely to be cause for concern, but its detection has triggered planetary defence response procedures for ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...