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

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

After an asteroid struck Finland long ago, microscopic life colonized the impact site within a few million years, new ...

When an asteroid slammed into what is now Lake Lappajärvi in Finland some 78 million years ago, it unleashed unimaginable ...

Fossils from New Mexico change how we look at dinosaur history.

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

Both the asteroid and comet, as well as several other asteroids ... try to deflect—asteroids and comets that might be on an impact course with Earth. And some of these scientists—including ...

The risk of a cosmic body striking the Earth—or exploding in the atmosphere—may be higher in 2032 and 2036, researchers have ...

This year’s “Halloween fireballs” are stunning to watch, but scientists say they may carry a warning from space.

SpaceX boss Elon Musk chimed in on the debate over the 3I/ATLAS comet and the subsequent alien conspiracies during an ...

Should we prepare for alien invasion? The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is travelling through our solar system on a hyperbolic path. Scientists observe its odd behaviour, debate its origin and monitor ...

Maybe that black cat that crossed your path wasn’t so bad after all. For the dinosaurs, an extinction-causing asteroid derailed what seemed to be a pretty good run. “It’s all just bad luck,” said New ...