The destructive power of asteroids is undeniable — just ask the dinosaurs. New research suggests a huge space rock that ...

Zinc in meteorites reveals Earth's essential volatiles came from unmelted asteroids, crucial for life. This insight may guide ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

NIU STEAM launch to the WNIJ studio, and they brought their telescopes, to answer if Earth really has two moons.

A large amount of pyrene, a carbon-rich molecule known as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, has been found in a distant ...

"Asteroids are "bits of a planet that didn't happen" that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter – the Main Asteroid Belt.

Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.

Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...

The source of Earth’s water is an enduring mystery that extends to exoplanets and the notion of habitability. In broad terms, ...

An international team of researchers has demonstrated that 70% of all known meteorite collisions with Earth have come from ...

The late afternoon welcomed the closest visitor: asteroid 2024 UY. It came just 184,000 miles from Earth, less than half the ...