A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

Newly spotted asteroid 2026 JH2, which could be up to 115 feet wide, will fly past Earth closer than some satellites on ...

Rubin Observatory in the mountains of the Atacama Desert in Chile. Originally imagined in the mid-1990s as the Dark Matter ...

Route 66 is celebrating 100 years — and people are driving through the historic highway in the hopes of finding those ...

Roughly 73 million years ago, on a strip of Pacific coastline that would eventually become Baja California, a mammal no bigger than a hamster climbed through the branches of Cretaceous forests and ...

A violent impact might have ejected material from deep within the moon's mantle — and future Artemis astronauts might be able ...

A large asteroid about the size of the Eiffel Tower is expected to come unusually close to Earth in 2029, but there is no risk of impact, scientists said. The asteroid, named Apophis, will pass around ...

Stargazers will have a chance to witness the first major meteor shower in more than three months when the Lyrids reach their peak on the night of April 21 and into the early morning of April 22.

The moon gets hit by space debris all the time, but some of the impacts are so large you can see them with the naked eye from thousands of kilometers away. NASA's control room recorded the team's ...