The galaxy is a vibrant orange disk, dubbed the Big Wheel. Its life began within the universe’s first two billion years of ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

By a very small margin, Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, ...

The asteroid is also a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) because it is big and has a threatening orbit ... could be phenomenally destructive if it ever were to hit the planet.

A group of scientists led by Dr Daniel Whalen of the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation have ...

A few weeks ago, Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines for being ... That’s why NASA’s DART mission exists—if we ever have to divert an object coming our way, we’re moving towards being ready ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on top of a bluff, and the reason that bluff is there, it's part of the ...

Which soon jumped up to 3.1%, the highest NASA has ever ... the big rocky chunks, asteroids. Most asteroids rather conveniently live in a place between Mars and Jupiter known as the asteroid ...

Don’t blame the astronomers for the ever-changing odds that an asteroid ... so a low probability risk of impact with a big asteroid might rate the same as a higher probability impact with ...

Two hundred craters over 4.5 billion years hardly seems like a big number or ... the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2023 was 3.1 percent, the highest ever recorded for an ...