A small asteroid flew 266 miles over Antarctica. It was too small to pose a threat, but objects of that size can produce fireballs.

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests that a newly-identified quasi-satellite could be a relic from the Soviet Union's Zond 1 mission, launched in 1964.

Scientists confirm Earth's so-called 'second moon' is just a small, temporary quasi-satellite with no real impact, debunking ...

NASA’s ambitious OSIRIS-APEX mission to study the asteroid Apophis has been spared from cancellation, but its future is far ...

The narrow miss comes nearly five years after asteroid 2020 VT4 roared past the ocean near French Polynesia, roughly 230 miles from Earth’s surface. On Nov. 14, 2020, the asteroid made a ” remarkably ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...

More than nine months after a wildfire devastated the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles, destroying nearly 7,000 structures and killing at least 12 people, authorities have arrested a ...

The newly identified species was small, hornless and possibly covered in fur, which would have helped it survive dark, cold ...

Just in time for Hallowe'en in 2024, Hubble and JWST captured an image of two interacting spiral galaxies — IC 2163 and NGC ...

During the 14th FYP period, China has launched a specific plan for sci-tech innovation, increasing support across 20 key areas including investment in basic research and the cultivation of innovative ...