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

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

NASA has identified a newly discovered near-Earth asteroid which has sparked interest due to its potential for impact.

NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday that the chance of the asteroid impacting Earth is slightly more than 1%.

The most infamous asteroid impact occurred 66 million years ago, when a six-mile-wide space rock triggered a global winter, ...

NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has backed a mission to Mars to investigate the remarkable 'square structure' (pictured) that was ...

Scientists have revealed that cities all around the world are becoming far rattier with time, and the main reason behind these rodent populations is climate change.According to CNN, a biology ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...