The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Chile, dubbed ATLAS, came across the space rock while observing the ...

A “city-destroying” asteroid is hurtling in the direction of Earth and has now made it to the top of a NASA risk table. The agency’s Planetary Defence Team was set up in order to detect and monitor ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft mission has delivered a sample of the asteroid Bennu to Earth and it has been found to contain ...

It comes after conspiracy theorists in 2019 said they had found alien faces, skulls and primitive cravings in photos of the red planet, but these claims were not backed up by scientific evidence.

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien astronomers could also be scanning Earth.