One photographer put the age of starlight into perspective with stunning projections on some of Earth's oldest rock ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

The measure could be taken to divert a space rock being monitored by the European Space Agency, which is expected to cross ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we don't know about it.

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would be in for, hinting at what it'd take for us to survive such a catastrophe.

Astronomers have significantly increased the odds of a giant asteroid hitting the earth by 2032. The giant asteroid, ...

NASA is getting excited about a special rock that its Perseverance rover has just scooped up from the surface of Mars.

Asteroid 2024 PT5, which almost became a temporary mini-moon to Earth, was recently found to be a broken-off part of the moon ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.