The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth this week on Dec. 19, 2025. Here's the latest news ...

City-sized butterfly crater discovered in Mars’ Idaeus Fossae region Wings suggest buried ice melted by asteroid impact ...

High schoolers across the state will have the chance to take college-level courses ranging from asteroid disasters to data ...

An interstellar comet is set to make its closest approach to Earth this week.

This week marks the last chance for backyard astronomers to see interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS before it races on its journey ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

International team finds glucose and ribose in samples from asteroid Bennu, marking first glucose discovery in space ...

With 3I/ATLAS days away from making its closest approach to Earth, agencies worldwide are conducting the largest and most ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

Tracking comets accurately is hard. A new effort with the U.N. and NASA aims to better chart these visitors using 3I/ATLAS.