A massive asteroid nearly as tall as the Eiffel Tower is set to fly past Earth this weekend, sparking global interest. Moving ...

The success of China's Tianwen-1, which sent the Zhurong rover to Mars, paved the way for Tianwen-2 and future missions, such ...

During a House Committee on Space, Science and Technology hearing, experts discussed the state of NASA's planetary defense ...

Learn more about how this hydrothermal system may have provided life on Earth with vital nutrients after the dino-killing ...

Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

Geologists find giant mosasaur vertebra in Mississippi, a marine predator that ruled the seas 66 million years ago, ...

While the modern world has some big and scary creatures, the truth is that many of those animals are nothing compared to ...

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million near-Earth objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...

JR, about the size of a 25-story building, is set to pass Earth on May 28 at a distance of 4.6 million kilometers. Though not ...