Every 13-15 years, Saturn is angled in a way in which the edge of its thin rings are oriented toward Earth – effectively ...

Humanity is better prepared than ever before to prevent a large asteroid from crashing into Earth, but there's more work, and ...

Enigmatic phenomena called fast radio bursts might be caused by interstellar objects colliding with highly magnetised neutron ...

Spanish Scientists might have made it infinitely easier to spot space rocks heading for Earth — by calculating the ...

NASA has announced that asteroid 2019 JN2 will safely fly past Earth on November 30, 2024. Despite its proximity of 3.59 ...

A new study reveals that the asteroid 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for 2 months, may have a "lunar origin." ...

In 2015, David Hole discovered a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite in Maryborough, Australia. Initially mistaking it for a gold ...

A chunk of rock collected from the asteroid Ryugu contains bacteria—but, unfortunately, it's not evidence of alien life.

Scientists simulated a situation that may offer an improved explanation for how the Red Planet ended up with small Phobos and ...

Last year, researchers excitedly announced that they had found two organic compounds essential for living organisms in ...

Hayabusa was supposed to return asteroid samples to Earth. Asteroids are space rocks that were formed during the early solar ...

"The fact that terrestrial microbes are the Earth's best colonizers means we can never completely discount terrestrial ...