Europe's Hera asteroid probe will use the Red Planet for a gravity assist on its way to scope out the space rock crash site ...

NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is set to pass near Earth this Saturday, at a distance only slightly farther than the moon. According to the Jet Propulsion Lab ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...

Get past the fake science, and the Taurid meteor shower foreshadows what could, one day, pose a troubling scenario.

The small town of Nordlingen is built on an asteroid crater, and its buildings are filled with diamonds created by the ...

The park will be situated above a quarry where over 100,000 remains from more than 100 species were unearthed.

Researchers at New York University have devised a mathematical approach to predict the structures of crystals—a critical step in developing many medicines and electronic devices—in a matter of ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...

A sliver of Martian rock that once lay hidden in a university drawer has helped researchers better understand the Red ...

In April, the astronomer said that he had discovered a large asteroid with a diameter of about 200 meters, potentially dangerous for the Earth ...

An asteroid burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere just hours after it was detected last month, the European Space Agency ...