6 min readNASA Study of Pristine Meteorite Adds to Story of Ancient AsteroidsC1 clasts in Hillsborough: On the left is a back-scatt...

It's sort of like Armageddon, but with less oil drills.

The encounter marks a new phase for Hayabusa2, which completed its primary mission in 2020 after returning samples from the asteroid Ryugu t...

Astronomers say a large asteroid will soon harmlessly zip past Earth

Even small asteroids lead complex lives. During its flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson last year, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft revealed the aste...

Elliott Smith spent much of his life turning loneliness and longing into timeless songs. More than two decades after his death, the singer-s...

Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury hosts water ice at its poles. Now scientists may know how it got there.

On its way to a metal asteroid, NASA's Psyche probe tested its cameras as it got a gravity assist from the Red Planet.

It helped to have a number of features to aid survival following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)This view of a crescent Mars was captured on May 15, 2026, a...

Astronomers only discovered Asteroid 2026 JH2 a week ago, and now it's paying us a visit.

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN(CNN) — An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will fly by Earth Monday, coming as close as 91,593...

Newly spotted asteroid 2026 JH2, which could be up to 115 feet wide, will fly past Earth closer than some satellites on Monday (May 18). The...

Astronomers have found fewer than half of the estimated existing city-killer asteroids

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A 2026 PBS NOVA documentary in January examines a provocative idea about life's beginnings: that the...