The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...

A small international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed that asteroid 2019 UO14 is a Trojan asteroid of ...

Scientists now say that's almost precisely what happened to the dinosaurs, on a much bigger scale: the asteroid that hit ...

Detailed images of the 66-million-year-old Nadir Crater offer new insights into catastrophic asteroid impacts, showing ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has taught us a lot about the nature of asteroids and the history of our planet, and it's not done ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.

Earth's newest celestial neighbor has finally arrived. Astronomers using a powerful telescope in Sutherland, South Africa, ...

The end of non-avian dinosaur’s time on Earth is often depicted as one big, knockout blow delivered by the cataclysmic ...

The ESA spacecraft embarked on a two-year journey to the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos on Monday.

Research highlights how the meteor impact that ended the dinosaurs helped spawn the mutualistic relationship between ants and ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket snapped a pretty special in-space selfie on Monday (Oct. 7). The shot, captured during the launch of ...