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

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

Trovants are rocks that grow by absorbing minerals from rainwater. Romania is home to a cluster of trovants that inspired ...

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

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

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

Scientists have warned an asteroid the size of Buckingham Palace is increasingly likely to hit Earth in the next decade - but ...

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

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

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.

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

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