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

Great galaxy, a bubble gum asteroid is heading for for the Star Trek: Scouts school! Can the kids stop it in time?

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

When astronomers talk about asteroid Apophis, the mood is a mix of fascination and unease. Discovered in 2004 and quickly ...

NASA set out to stop a dangerous asteroid — but the mission ended up creating a brand-new problem no one expected. In this video, we’ll break down what went wrong, why the impact didn’t behave the way ...

Nasa is looking at several options, like crashing a probe into the asteroid to nudge it off course, but that plan was later ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

Scientists are rethinking extinction risk as studies reveal how shrinking populations disrupt social connections that many animals depend on.

Amino acids from asteroid Bennu suggest that some of life’s building blocks formed in icy conditions in the early solar system.

On Feb. 12, 2009, a Continental airlines turboprop commuter plane crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y., killing 50 people, ...

On Feb. 12, 2009, a Continental airlines turboprop commuter plane crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y., killing 50 people, including one person in the house.

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The compounds — decane, undecane, and ...