A building-sized asteroid has a 1.3% chance of colliding with Earth in 2032. Though the chance is small, it has activated a ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...

Astronomers confirmed the object as a near-Earth asteroid, and catalogued it as 2024 YR4. But additional calculations soon ...

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...