Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Had the asteroid hit the moon, it would have carved out a crater in an impact with the energy of a nuclear bomb.

NASA says there's now zero chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into the moon in 2032. The space agency had been ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids ...

Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to another world, including Earth, according to a ...

Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...

Rubin Observatory detected 800,000 cosmic changes in one night, launching its 10-year mission to create a real-time movie of ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

In Madison and nearby southeast Missouri counties, William Jud, a Fredericktown geologist, may have identified a buried ...

For All Mankind is an alternate-history drama that operates on a pretty straightforward principle: Suppose the Soviet Union ...

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A NASA scientist has warned that thousands of city-killing asteroids could strike Earth, and there’s currently no defense humanity ...