In 2022 its space agency, NASA, collided a semi-autonomous spacecraft (capable of self-steering as well as being remotely ...

Video from NASA shows two galaxies, about 80 million light-years away from Earth, forming the shape of "blood-soaked eyes." ...

Set your calendars on Nov. 18 (probably) for the Leonids meteor shower in the peak morning. You don't need a telescope to ...

"For the first time, we see the creation of atoms; we can measure the temperature of the matter and see the microphysics in this remote explosion." ...

Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...

Find out how comets are connected to some of our favorite annual astronomy events with November's Night Sky Notes!

Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it's easy to understand why. They first appear as faint smudges of light in the sky, sometimes fading soon after and sometimes becoming brighter ...

How did life on Earth evolve? These questions had preoccupied him throughout grad school, and long after he earned his PhD in 1997. The answers, Lauretta believed, could be found within asteroids and ...

Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before ...

A city-sized asteroid is approaching Earth this October, set to make its closest approach on October 27. Known as 1036 ...

The human species is ever-changing and so is our view of the universe.

Researchers have found evidence of the collision between Earth and an asteroid nicknamed S2 the size of four Mount Everests – that’s 200 times larger than the asteroid that hit our planet at ...