NASA’s Psyche spacecraft used Mars’ gravity to gain speed on its journey toward a strange metal-rich asteroid deep in the ...

NASA has been tracking a bus-sized asteroid that is zipping past Earth on Friday at a whopping 45,522 mph. Known as 2026 KC1, ...

Our galaxy and its nearest large companion, Andromeda, may be headed for a collision on a cosmic scale. What happens then?

Not quite halfway through a six-year sojourn through the Solar System, a NASA spacecraft used a close encounter with Mars ...

The asteroid, officially known as 2026 JH2, will come within about 57,000 miles of Earth, according to the European Space ...

Here’s the good news: If a near-Earth object (NEO) big enough to wipe out humanity entirely is ever on a collision course with our planet, we’re likely to find out about it a good while before it ...

In “One Leg on Earth,” a young college grad’s idealistic move to Lagos turns into a nightmare. By Ainslie Hogarth Ainslie Hogarth is the author of four novels, most recently “Normal Women.” Her fifth ...

CHICAGO — Police are investigating after a series of smash-and-grab burglaries just minutes apart from each other on the city’s North Side. One business hit was El Barco Mariscos, located at 1035 ...

This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a ...

Have you ever wondered if our planet is experiencing changes that are way more complex than we realize? While headlines often trumpet rising global temperatures, something far more intriguing is ...

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Still, the skyscraper-sized object will be so close — within 20,000 miles of the surface of the planet, nearer than some satellites — it will be visible to the naked eye during its Friday April 13, ...