Armed with that information, the researchers went about gathering samples from the areas of land that are believed to be the ...

As 3I/ATLAS heads past Jupiter, viral theories claim the interstellar object could return towards Earth. What we know.

A surprising discovery has been made by the Planetary Defense Team that detected the 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid whose path ...

But 3I/ATLAS is no ordinary rock – it’s a comet from beyond the solar system which greeted the Earth on December 19. It’s ...

Deep Impact is leaving Netflix soon. Starring Elijah Wood and directed by Mimi Leder, the asteroid disaster film remains one ...

Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

An asteroid roughly the size of a small city may slam into the Moon in 2032, and if it does, the blast could hurl clouds of lunar rock into space and toward Earth. Scientists say the odds of a direct ...

Dust returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission reveals rare, water-rich CI chondrite meteorite fragments—found on the Moon for ...

In a similar vein, the 2023 source, cs2, recently emerged from another rare yet sizable asteroid collision. The impact poofed ...

There may be no enterprise that lends itself so well to the camera as space travel. The universe is a riot of color and light ...

Tens of millions of years ago, a diverse array of bird species soared, swam, and thrived amid their scaly reptile cousins—and ...

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...