The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every six years at about 186,000 miles away. It might come even closer in the ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

YR4, a near-Earth asteroid has a one-in-45 chance of hitting Planet Earth in December 2032, NASA and the European Space ...

Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...

NASA is using its most powerful space telescope to study the true size of the "city-killer" asteroid that has a one-in-43 ...

In his inauguration speech in January, United States President Donald Trump declared the US would“plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”. <p ...

The findings from returned samples of asteroid Bennu may provide researchers insight into what happens on distant icy bodies in our solar system, such as Saturn’s moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet ...

NASA teams up with JWST to study asteroid 2024 YR4 as chances of impact rise to 1-in-43, with potential catastrophic effects.

A majority of Europeans considers the United States to be a “necessary partner” rather than “an ally." ...

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