For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...

The timing of Earth’s earliest life alongside a surge of asteroid impacts raises the possibility that prebiotic molecules or ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

Armageddon might not have a reputation as a scientifically accurate film. But scientists now say the Hollywood blockbuster ...

The latest asteroid to pass by the Earth will be back in a few years — it's not coming for us, but it may be on a collision ...

What would happen if asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the Moon? Scientists have a theory - There’s a 4.3% chance it hits the moon in 2032 ...

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...

A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...

Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab revealing life’s early chemical origins ” is published in The Brighter ...

Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain the organic matter that they do ...

Saving the world grand strategy-style.