As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...

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Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

Recent discoveries have challenged previous assumptions about the space near Earth, revealing a potential population of ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within days.

Not for too much longer, though: According to LiveScience, a telescope analysis by Dutch space researcher and satellite ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid making its way toward Earth today, May 2, 2025, with an alarming speed of 42,300 ...

President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he is renaming Veterans Day, which is on Nov. 11, as "Victory Day for ...

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...