NASA is contemplating an ambitious plan to destroy asteroid 2024 YR4, a city-block-sized rock with a 4% chance of impacting ...

Nathan Kessel proudly presents his adorable kitten named Asteroid Destroyer, a tiny cat with an overly dramatic identity.

The source of the significant water ice deposits hidden in Mercury's polar regions has been a topic of debate among ...

An asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter has been named after Astrid Eeuwes, a 45-year-old amateur astronomer from Nijmegen who studies micrometeorites collected from roofs and streets. The 1.5km ...

NASA took advantage of the recent close approach of the Psyche probe to Mars to calibrate its observation instruments.

A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

Scientists studying South Korea’s only confirmed impact crater have discovered microbial structures beneath the ...

In all, 75% of Earth's species went extinct, including the nonavian dinosaurs. So how did some animals ‪—‬ including species ...

Michael Bay wasn’t remotely worried about the science in his 1998 science-fiction action hit that launched an elite ensemble ...

The 27-feet space rock is zooming past Earth at a whopping 45,522 mph.

NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars for a gravity assist on the way to its final target. And it took some ...

South Korean researchers discovered more than 20 oxygen-producing stromatolites inside the Hapcheon impact crater, the first direct evidence that post-impact hydrothermal lakes incubated microbial lif ...