An asteroid the size of around nine reindeer - coincidentally, how many reindeer Santa Claus supposedly uses - is set to pass ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 XN1, about the size of a commercial jet, will safely pass Earth on December 24. It will ...

Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials—and hints at answers to one of the great mysteries of science.

Outer space is sending Earth some early Christmas presents, but it may be just as well that at least one of them is way too ...

NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed.

The end of the Cretaceous period saw disastrous geological and astronomical events, but researchers say that one in ...

NASA scientists are closely monitoring 120-foot long Asteroid 2024 XN1, which they say is set to "skim" Earth on December ...

Santa won't be the only thing whizzing over our heads this Christmas Eve as NASA warns that an asteroid the size of a ...

Now that we’ve found more dark comets, we’ve noticed that they come in two flavors. Outer dark comets are larger – about a mile wide in size – and on more elliptical orbits farther out in the solar ...

Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien ...

The Chicxulub meteorite impact, rather than volcanic activity, was the principal driver behind the extinction of the ...

While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted.