When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...

Legendary scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson has explained how NASA and other planetary defense bodies could deflect the potential ...

While finding massive metallic rocks in space is relatively easy, asteroids that are just ten metres in size are far harder ...

The giant-impact hypothesis posits that billions of years ago a Mars-sized body named Theia collided with the early Earth.

NASA shared new ground-based telescope observations of the rock, which is estimated be about 130 to 300 feet (40 to 90 metres ...

NASA says that Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 99.72 percent chance of missing Earth when it passes by us in 2032.

The vast majority of asteroids orbit the Sun in a region of ... but there is more to it in the form of planetary-defense efforts," said Julien de Wit, one of MIT's researchers.

Did you ever go out with friends as a child and roam around the neighborhood, pretending to look for space rocks? Any time you found something that looked "out of the ordinary", you would come up with ...

According to the study, asteroid-mass black holes (less than a micrometer across) will cause relatively minor damage locally ...

Six decades after Star Trek’s Captain James T. Kirk began his mission to boldly go where no man has gone before, US President ...