Humanity has taken a 'notable step forward' in its ability to deflect asteroids heading towards Earth, a new study reveals.

Space is not as empty as it looks. Right now, as you read this, NASA scientists are actively watching dozens of objects ...

In April 1974, the small town of Tanner, Alabama experienced one of the most extraordinary weather disasters ever recorded. Within just 30 minutes, two massive EF5 tornadoes from the same supercell ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. A space sample with a new twistScientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist ...

Asteroid 2026 EG1 was discovered on March 8, less than one week ago.

Did the ingredients for life as we know it exist in the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

Smashing a spacecraft into a binary asteroid system has managed to alter its path around the sun, a new analysis reveals ...

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New observations have ruled out the chances of an asteroid hitting the moon in 2032, according to scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope.