Our first attempt at shifting the orbit of an asteroid has provided crucial insight into how we could safely deflect a space ...

On April 13, 2029, the asteroid Apophis will pass so close to Earth that it will be visible to the naked eye for over two ...

In 2029, asteroid Apophis will skim safely past Earth, where it will be visible to billions. For scientists, it's a once-in-a ...

I remember watching a documentary that described Jupiter as a gas giant. The image that came to my mind was a huge, soft ...

Asteroid 2025 QH16 safely passed Earth on September 2, stirring online buzz but posing no actual threat. NASA clarified the ...

Where did the Moon's magnetism go? For decades, scientists have been puzzled by this question, which has lingered since orbiters detected signs of high magnetic fields in lunar surface rocks. Today, ...

Despite its hair-raising future proximity, 2025 QV5 is too small to be labeled “potentially hazardous” defined by NASA as ...

The museum tapped artists — including Chicago rock screenprinter Jay Ryan — to visualize a 15-million-year period in time ...

The label " space rock " feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window ...

We know the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and the woolly mammoths of the ice age. But what about the millions of years in ...

When NASA's Dawn mission arrived at Ceres in 2015, scientists and the general public got their first detailed look at this ...

Some sauropod bones only contain lesions on the inside, while others with more advanced infections show circular bump-like ...