After taking another peek at the "city-killer" asteroid that once had a small but uncomfortable chance of smashing into our ...

Asteroid 2023 KU, comparable to a 35-story building, will safely pass Earth on April 11, 2025, at a distance twice that of ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

YR4 won't hit Earth, but scientists now estimate a 4% chance it could strike the Moon, possibly affecting space missions.

New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

“We compare the orbital elements of 2024 YR4 with the near-earth asteroid population model and find that its most likely sources are resonances between the inner and central main belt.

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will sweep briefly across ... the asteroid appears as a sharp dot of light in the 120-second exposure, compared to the background stars, which exhibit short ...