The stadium-sized asteroid 2020 XR is due to make its closest approach to Earth on record early on Dec. 4, and the encounter ...

The impact of the asteroid will be harmless, likely producing a nice fireball in the sky over northern Siberia few hours from ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

The unnamed asteroid is part of a growing list of near-Earth objects being monitored by space agencies around the globe ...

Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...

XR—will make its closest-ever approach to Earth, passing at a distance of 1.37 million miles. For context, that’s about five times the distance from Earth to the Moon, but still closer than most ...

A team of researchers led by Matthew Genge at Imperial College London confirmed that the asteroid has organic molecules; it confirmed that the samples actually have signs of life — but this life doesn ...

HOPES of finding traces of alien life in the universe have been scuppered yet again. And this time on asteroid Ryugu, a space ...

Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, is no stranger to making bold statements about humanity’s future in space. Among his most memorable is, “I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.” ...

A study of fossilized feces and vomit attempts to piece together why dinosaurs were so evolutionarily successful.

The analysis of hundreds of fossilized droppings (plus a little bit of petrified vomit) from roughly 230 million years ago ...

Watch for one of the best meteor showers of the year, Mars at its brightest, a new "planet parade" in late January, plus a ...