From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in ...

A rare visitor from another star system has been spotted: the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS! It was detected July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS. Most known ...

In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, Varvara Tupkalenko's two sons played with miniature cars like most other boys their age. Today ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.

What was it like to track the rising danger of this asteroid, and to ultimately determine that it’d miss us? This is the ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It ...