Scientists are testing whether ancient life from Earth—like hardy microbes—could survive the harsh conditions of space, potentially supporting the theory that life spreads between planets through ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...

NASA’s latest mission has detected a mysterious object near Jupiter, leaving scientists puzzled over whether it’s a rogue ...

However, "2025 HP" is not the only space rock flying nearby. Today, a separate 40-foot, bus-sized asteroid named "2025 HN4" ...

The asteroid has been compared to a lumpy bowling pin by space-watchers, with NASA describing it as looking like two ice ...

Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...

"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into space." ...

Lucy, an ambitious NASA mission to the outer solar system, just met its maker. The spacecraft completed a flyby of the main ...

The ability to pick out the hotspots of a fire puts responders "light-years ahead", said fire analyst Ethan Barrett.

From the very first Cold War Geiger counters that were Sputnik and Explorer-1, to the autonomous robots of Mars, asteroid ...

Jason Isaacs recalled why he thought director Michael Bay would fire him on his first day filming the 1998 film 'Armageddon.' ...