Catch the first glimpse of 'The Asteroid Strikes Back' in this engaging preview. The preview gives viewers an introduction to ...

The consequences, they suggest, may be visible from our planet.

Cosmic dust normally comes from dying stars. The recipe for a lab-made version includes a few gases, vacuum tubes and ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

This spring, a blood moon and meteor shower will both be visible in Western North Carolina skies. Here's how to catch them ...

Slow-moving objects in the sky have usually been put there by people. For example, in 2017 I got queries about what proved to be a giant Nasa balloon, launched from Wānaka, lit up by the setting sun ...

This twist — that 3I/ATLAS' outer layers have been baked by the sun — does not derail our mission. It just makes the science ...

Friday the 13th is approaching, and it will happen three times this year. Here are historical origins of the superstition and notable events.

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...