As the dawn of a new space age unfolds, investors have increasingly turned their gaze skyward. The universe is not just a ...

Asteroid City is a star-studded comedy-drama set in the American desert with a few too many framing devices up its sleeve.

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

Paleobotanist Dana Royer says there is evidence the planet will heal but it takes millions of years to recover. And each ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

The late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking predicted our planet's demise by 2600. Does NASA agree with him?

For example, the asteroid Bennu has a 1-in-1,750 chance of impacting Earth in the next 300 years. However, the odds of a civilization-ending asteroid strike are extremely low3. NASA and other ...

This idea really is quite a fascinating one. Currently a trip to Mars would require large amounts of air, water and other ...

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...