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 ...

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

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 ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

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

Psyche is often said to be worth around £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 based on estimates of how much metal it may contain. This ...

Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. A space sample with a new twistScientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu hint that some of life’s ingredients were forming long before Earth existed. NASA’s ...

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 already knew this could be a doozy. Astronomers previously estimated if 2024 YR4 hits the moon, it could form a ...