"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...

Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?

Recently the asteroid 2024 YR4, which is expected to pass Earth in 2032, was calculated to have a 1 in 83 chance of striking ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

EARTH can once again start making plans for December 2032. Nasa has announced “city-killer” asteroid YR4 is unlikely to ...

With the "city-killer" Y24 asteroid headed for Earth, the world's largest space agencies are exploring ways to halt its ...

(Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Binzel, who developed the Torino scale for measuring the impact hazards ...

The most scare about an asteroid strike has passed – but advances in technology mean we can now see more and more of them out ...