A recently discovered, sizable asteroid may come within striking distance of Earth in less than eight years. But although the ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

Marianne Faithfull, 'As Tears Go By' singer and Rolling Stones muse, dies at 78 US probes release of arrested immigrant in ...

Petrified wood is one of the most sought-after materials in the world for both its aesthetic value and its scientific value.

NASA is tracking the path of a huge asteroid that will come hurtling past Earth at a staggering speed of 35,000mph later ...

NASA+ partnered with the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for a discussion about this new documentary, "Planetary Defenders." ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Rescue crews rushed into the Potomac River, just three miles from the White House, after a commercial jet carrying 64 people ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in ...

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