A new study reveals that the asteroid belt is slowly disappearing, offering insights into its long-term fate and what this ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, which made a close approach to the sun, has prompted lots of public interest. Kim Kardashian asked NASA's ...

Dive into NASA's ATLAS system as interstellar 3I/ATLAS nears Sun on 29 Oct 2025—no Earth hit, but astrometry campaign probes ...

An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized city could potentially collide with Earth eight years from now, as its orbit around the sun briefly intersects the path of our planet. Named 2024 YR4, the ...

A small asteroid zoomed past Earth closer than most satellites last week — and astronomers didn't notice it until hours later. The surprise asteroid encounter occurred at 8:47 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, ...

A new study of dinosaur biodiversity challenges the belief that the megafauna were on their way out 66 million years ago ...

The mystery of whether a Manhattan-sized object whizzing through the solar system is an alien probe or simply a comet may be ...

ESA's planned Ramses mission would arrive at the asteroid Apophis two months before the asteroid's April 2029 close flyby of Earth. Credit: ESA WASHINGTON — A European-led mission to the asteroid ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an asteroid passes in front of it to produce a one-of-a-kind eclipse. The event should be visible to millions of ...

Dinosaurs appear to have been thriving before a giant asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, paleontologists working in ...