A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

The Virtual Telescope Project will let you watch Monday’s “extremely close encounter” with a blue whale-sized asteroid live.

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, May 14 (Reuters) - NASA's Psyche probe was headed for a close encounter with Mars on Friday and ...

Dante’s vision of Hell may echo the physics of a massive asteroid strike, offering a new way to read the Inferno.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Eta Aquarids meteor shower will dazzle the sky very early Wednesday morning, but you’ll have to make an effort to see it in ...

The Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known natural piece of iron on Earth, weighing about 60 metric tons today. By ...

A newly discovered asteroid estimated to be about 62 feet wide will zoom near Earth on Monday, though it is not expected to ...

An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.

The Perseids result from Earth passing through debris — bits of ice and rock — left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle, which last ...

An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will fly by Earth, according to the European Space Agency.

An ancient impact may have scattered material from deep inside the moon toward NASA's planned Artemis landing sites near the ...