"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

A 1,300-pound NASA probe re-entered Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday, nearly 14 years after it was launched. The U.S. Space Force confirmed the Van Allen Probe A, which was launched in August 2012, ...

Currently, one of those now-defunct spacecraft might be plummeting toward the planet’s surface. Days ago, the U.S. Space ...

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.

In September 2022, a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator slammed into a small asteroid at nearly 24,000 kilometers per hour (15,000 miles per hour). The collision was deliberate and the asteroid ...

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy.

Asteroids would’ve supplied the raw materials, heat, and geologic plumbing to circulate prebiotic matter while also creating ...

ESA’s Planetary Defence team allay fears 100-metre-wide object could hit Earth’s moon and disrupt satellites Fears that a 100-metre-wide asteroid could be on course to collide with the moon appear to ...

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

Asteroid 2026 CC3 will be flying by Earth very closely today. The newly spotted celestial object is approximately 33 feet wide, around the size of a city bus. The asteroid will fly safely past Earth ...

A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

A NASA defense spacecraft altered the pathway of two asteroids’ orbits around the sun, according to a new study. The 770-day orbital period of the pair around the sun was altered by a fraction of a ...