Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...

Scientists may have found a powerful new way to hunt for alien life — not by searching for specific molecules, but by looking for hidden patterns in how those molecules are organized. Researchers ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union explored ideas so extreme they border on science fiction—including using asteroids as ...

Scientists gear up to explain significance of event while preventing public panic over unfounded fears of an asteroid strike ...

Asteroid fragments redirected to the Moon may eject lunar debris into space, potentially disrupting Earth's satellite systems ...

The Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known natural piece of iron on Earth, weighing about 60 metric tons today. By ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to ...

A researcher says he found a possible shortcut to Mars that would shorten a roundtrip to Earth's planetary neighbor to as ...

NASA is taking a bold step to safeguard Earth from cosmic threats with its NEO Surveyor mission. The near-Earth object (NEO) ...

The scientists supposedly all had access to sensitive government research, and the nature of their work has led to ...