A volcanic fissure once again burst open near Iceland's Blue Lagoon, a popular geothermal spa, on Nov. 20, 2024. This ...

The smallest ever asteroid to hit Earth and the only one to be properly measured is about the size of a regular cat, as per a ...

NASA has identified an asteroid rich in valuable metals like gold and platinum. Named 16 Psyche, the asteroid holds such an ...

An asteroid that fell to Earth and exploded above Canada in 2022 was only around 20 inches wide — the smallest space rock ...

Deep beneath Greenland's ice, NASA radar happened upon Camp Century, a long-lost Cold War base now buried under 100 feet of ...

In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.

Currently, more than 2 million miles away, the object is too small and faint to see without a powerful telescope.

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

A sample of the asteroid Ryugu returned to Earth by the Hayabusa2 mission was rapidly colonized by terrestrial microorganisms ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

A dead space telescope has left behind jaw-dropping unreleased cosmic images. NASA’s NEOWISE telescope ended its journey ...

How did the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, form and evolve orbiting the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published ...