It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.

The cosmos has always fascinated humanity with its vast mysterious expanse holding both beauty and potential danger. Among ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...

Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

What happens if more than one company targets the same asteroid? Is any of this legal in the first place? That last question was not specifically addressed in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty ...

Watching this five-day asteroid war game from the wings were ... and all life on it have been shaped by big rocks from outer space slamming into it. Dave Morrison was one of the first researchers ...

FOR a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary ... other spacefaring nations and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. Although YR4 no longer poses a threat, it is ...