"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to safely miss the lunar surface by about 13,000 miles, according to recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft captured a selfie with Earth when it was about 26.7 million miles (44M km) from Earth and 28 million mi. (45M km) from asteroid 2016HO3. Credit: Space.com | footage courte ...

Scientists simulated an asteroid impact, and Deinococcus radiodurans’ cell membranes made it through. This suggests that life-forms flung into space by violent impacts may have colonized planets and ...

A bus-sized asteroid called 2026 CC3 will fly close to Earth today as NASA tracks the spatial object.

Asteroids would’ve supplied the raw materials, heat, and geologic plumbing to circulate prebiotic matter while also creating ...

An old NASA science satellite plunged uncontrolled from orbit and reentered over the Pacific on Wednesday. Related Articles. King pen ...

Scientists have confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4 will not collide with the moon, ending months of speculation about a potential impact in 2032. Fresh observations reveal the 100-metre-wide space rock ...

The event is already being referred to as the 2026 Koblenz meteor.

The University of Arizona announced it will help build two of the three instruments needed for a new telescope.