His research unraveled mysteries about the solar system and the demise of the dinosaurs. In retirement, he turned his ...

Legendary Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, astronomer Scott Manley and acclaimed author Mary Robinette Kowal, known for ...

Seventy percent of meteorites that hit Earth today can be traced back to only three families of asteroids a finding that overturns decades of hypotheses regarding the randomness of cosmic rubble and ...

NASA officer Dr Kelly Fast is responsible for identifying and tracking asteroids, and figuring out if any of these rocky ...

The idea of Earth's destruction has been a source of apprehension and distress for humans. In the news, we often hear about ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where ...

An asteroid the size of a 10-story building could collide with the Moon in 2032 – and NASA just upped its impact odds again ...

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...

“People find the car study infinitely relatable,” Piff says now of this research, the results of which were published in the ...

New observations of the “city killer” asteroid once thought to be on a collision course with the Earth indicate it will miss ...

Models predict that more than half of all meteoroids—rocks flying through space that might fall to Earth—should come from these asteroids. Yet only about 4% of meteorites found on Earth match ...