Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

New research shows that a pair of grand canyons were carved into the Moon's surface in barely 10 minutes when an asteroid ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

That's good news for NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side later this ...

The Europa Clipper mission, NASA's largest planetary science spacecraft to date, aims to determine if Jupiter's moon Europa possesses the necessary ingredients for life within its vast subsurface ...

The gigantic cataclysm, which released energy 130 times more powerful than the detonation of the entire world’s atomic ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

SETI scientists suggest that extraterrestrial civilizations could detect Earth through 'technosignatures' like planetary ...

Scientists are closely monitoring a massive asteroid that could strike Earth in 2032, with the potential for catastrophic ...

The energy to produce the grand canyons on the Moon is about 130 times larger than the energy in the global inventory of ...

The most infamous asteroid impact occurred 66 million years ago, when a six-mile-wide space rock triggered a global winter, wiping out the dinosaurs and 75 per cent of all species. By contrast, 2024 ...