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 ...

Would we suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs? What if this football-field-sized space rock didn’t make that turn? What if ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

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

The catastrophic impact of an asteroid 66 million years ago brought death and devastation on Earth—but also fascinating new life.

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...

Things are heating up once again, and it’s not just Houston’s weather following the snowless freeze; themes for the 2026 Orientation Week have been revealed, marking a spirited look into the future as ...