A famously unlucky date is getting a cosmic twist. NASA says the asteroid Apophis will safely pass close to Earth on Friday, ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to ...

Egeria’s close pass: Asteroid 13 Egeria passes less than a degree from 80 Virginis, making it easy to track its southwestward drift with a telescope or camera. Schickard in view: Before sunrise May 12 ...

This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance ...

Most living organisms inherit two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent, but plants frequently undergo whole-genome ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is about to pull off a dramatic close flyby of Mars, skimming just 2,800 miles above the planet to ...

People on the ground in the Eastern Hemisphere will be able to observe the asteroid with their own eyes, weather permitting, according to NASA.

When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly a third of life on the planet. But many plants survived the devastation. In ...

Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...