Earth is no stranger to mass extinction events – it’s had five so far, and some scientists have even claimed we’re in the ...

Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

New research indicates that Earth may have had a ring system about 466 million years ago. This ring structure might have emerged ... analyzes the geographic distribution of 21 asteroid impact craters ...

Is the universe intelligent? It often appears that way. Over the course of earth’s 4.5 billion year history, nature has ...

According to a report by Spanish outlet Fichajes, Chelsea are plotting a €65 million move for 25-year ... The French international is entering his peak years, and he could play his best football ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory.

Goodnight room, goodnight moon. The Hera spacecraft, speeding on to an asteroid, took a look back at Earth's moon — and in a new animation, you can see our neighbor shrinking as Hera flies away.