Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds. The work demonstrates that a certain ...

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

Samples from Ryugu, a small, near-Earth asteroid, preserve natural remanent magnetization (NRM) from the early history of the solar system. However, despite multiple studies, there is currently no ...

The Comets will finish the season with back-to-back games in two of the final three weeks. The team expects those final games ...

On Monday, the New Jersey Devils announced that the team has signed forward Matyas Melovsky to a two-year, entry-level ...

Hearty bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In ...

The JUICE spacecraft captured its first detailed glimpse of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing a glowing coma and ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...

The Phoenix Mercury made the WNBA Finals for the first time in 1998, and 10 years later, things were a little different.

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...