As part of the 'Our Fragile Space' exhibition, Alexander took long-exposure photographs of the sky to illustrate the number ...

How did life originate? Did it form on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system and was it seeded on Earth by impact of an ...

Asteroid impacts with global consequences are vastly rarer, especially compared to the frequency with which they appear in ...

An asteroid is going to hit Earth one day, and we need to prepare ourselves. This video discusses past asteroid impacts, such as the one that killed the dinosaurs and the asteroid that hit in 2013. It ...

Scientists have discovered the fastest-spinning asteroid sized over 0.3 miles in diameter, which is rotating about once every two minutes. Dubbed 2025 MN45, the space rock is some 2,300 feet across ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. University-Led Payloads to Land on Asteroid Apophis as Part of the World's First Commercial Deep-Space Rideshare ...

University-Led Payloads to Land on Asteroid Apophis as Part of the World's First Commercial Deep-Space Rideshare Mission Under the leadership of planetary scientist and PERC Director, Dr. Tomoko Arai, ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention asteroids. That’s easy to understand. The typical asteroid lacks the jaw ...

NASA is monitoring a plane-sized asteroid that’s heading towards Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Measuring around 230 feet in ...

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NEW ORLEANS — There’s about a 4 percent chance that a building-sized asteroid will hit the moon in 2032. Moreover, there’s about a 1 percent chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will not only ...