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

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

NASA warns of asteroid 2025 HY2, the size of a Boeing, approaching Earth on May 7 at 48,900 kilometres per hour.

They’ve concluded that the Earth was built in the same way that you would build a big snowball to make a snowman. The mass that would become our home rolled through planetary debris – rocks floating ...

Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was that rare type of comet that arrived with fanfare and lived up to the hype, serving up naked-eye views ...

JX8 is moving towards Earth and is classified as potentially hazardous. Should we be worried? With an estimated diameter ...

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

Icy comets can supply water and oxygen to tidally locked e Feb 2025 research shows asteroid impacts could cool Earth and deplete ozo Studies provide insights into planetary habitability and potential ...

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

NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's ...

NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...