The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

New observations of 3I/ATLAS provide real data that scientists are using to evaluate asteroid behavior ahead of Apophis’ 2029 ...

A surprising discovery has been made by the Planetary Defense Team that detected the 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid whose path ...

With 3I/ATLAS days away from making its closest approach to Earth, agencies worldwide are conducting the largest and most ...

The University of Arizona's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft only made it home once in 2025, but at least it got some nice snapshots ...

Harvard's Avi Loeb warns that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS defies standard physics, raising the stakes for planetary defence ...

(KTLA) – A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small but significant chance of impacting planet Earth in seven years. The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is speeding towards the Earth at more than 22,600 miles per hour, according to ...

An asteroid that measures up to 300 feet across could smack into Earth in 2032, and while NASA says the chances of a collision are “extremely low,” the probability has been increasing since the space ...

The nitrogen in the gum was found to be in nitrogen heterocycles, which are the building blocks of nucleobases in DNA and RNA. This brings us to the other new discovery, reported in Nature Geoscience, ...

Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like Bustle, LAMag, and HelloGiggles. Getty The possibility of a ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...