A building-sized asteroid had a 1-in-32 chance of hitting Earth at its peak, but astronomers soon found there was zero chance ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

This December's dazzling display comes from a strange asteroid with comet-like behavior—and a tail of debris that astronomers ...

In 2021, a global survey of 10,000 young people between the ages of 16 and 25 found that 75 percent were fearful of the future. More than half believed that humanity is doomed to extinction. There’s ...

How life began on Earth is one of the biggest remaining questions in science. Now, NASA has taken a major step towards ...

Scientists led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found sugars essential for biology on Earth in the Bennu ...

In one such incident, recent reports claim that asteroid Bennu, a space rock that was orbiting the sun millions of kilometers ...

It's not often that a deep-space robotic explorer swings back by its home planet, but NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission did just ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about every six ...

No charges filed against officers in deadly Dundalk shooting during mental health crisis The Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division (IID) announced that no charges will be filed ...

In late 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 received the designation, which triggered headlines after initial estimates provided it with a few-percent potential of striking the Earth in December 2032. Subsequent ...