Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

What if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck Earth today? This video explores the potential consequences of such an event, examining the immediate and long-term effects on life, climate, and ...

FILE - A pallet of food awaits processing as volunteers work in the background to label cans of beans for redistribution at Food Bank in Albuquerque, N.M., May 7, 2020. 3D model visualises what an ...

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.

These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

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

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

Over the same time period just five years ago, in 2020, there had been more than double the number of storms compared to what we've seen so far this year. It "only takes one," though, to make ...

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 ...