Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon. How ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has become a staple in science news columns. This space rock has a fluctuating but small chance to hit our ...

The Moon is no stranger to being struck by huge lumps of space rock. In fact, new research has shown that, nearly four ...

During the latest round of layoffs, the tiny team was among the hundreds let go. And though some parts of the educational ...

Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...

Two gargantuan canyons on the moon were carved by a hailstorm of rocks — and that’s good news for future lunar astronauts.

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

So while the odds have doubled, astronomers aren't too worried. When 2024 YR 4 had a risk of less than 1%, NASA's Planetary ...