Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely close flyby in 2029 to learn how to deflect others like it ...

A n intriguing new study suggests that the universe may rotate once every 500 billion years. If correct, the authors believe that it could explain one of the most annoying puzzles in astronomic ...

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

It’s a long-standing debate in paleontology: Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid hit Earth one fateful spring day 66 ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

Can scientists build a detector of near-Earth objects that would sense gravitational waves produced by any "dark" objects ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...

Things were no better in the oceans with mosasaurs, ammonites, belemnites, giant inoceramid bivalves, reef-forming rudist ...

Small fossils show mammals moved to the ground before the dinosaurs vanished. New plants changed habitats, giving better food ...

Nagpur: Maoist-hit Gadchiroli, where mobile phones were once an unknown entity and govt footprint was missing for decades in ...

Late last year, a newly discovered asteroid caused quite a stir when initial observations revealed a greater than 1% chance ...