NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

The Taurids Meteor Shower, which enchants sky watchers every year from late October through November, is soon set to reach ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 ...

Two new studies suggest that, contrary to longstanding beliefs, dinosaurs were not on the decline before the Chicxulub asteroid impact.

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

Dive into NASA's ATLAS system as interstellar 3I/ATLAS nears Sun on 29 Oct 2025—no Earth hit, but astrometry campaign probes ...

An asteroid with the second-fastest unique orbit in the solar system—one that sees it traveling a complete run around our star in just 128 days—has been found hiding in the sun’s glare. Known as 2025 ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...

UN launches a global planetary-defence campaign as interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS speeds past Earth, sparking both scientific curiosity and international cooperation—though NASA insists there is no ...

Dinosaurs appear to have been thriving before a giant asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, paleontologists working in New Mexico said Thursday in the journal Science. Experts have long debated ...

LAS CRUCES — A geology professor who joined the New Mexico State University faculty this year is the lead author of a new paper addressing a long-standing question about the extinction of dinosaurs.