A 170-foot asteroid is set to race past Earth today at extraordinary speed, NASA says. Though no impact is expected, ...

Why are so many people anxious about Friday the 13th? Some people think the origin is tied to The Last Supper in Christianity, when Jesus Christ reportedly dined with 12 apostles, totaling 13 at the ...

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Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere. If they’re big enough, they can prove incredibly destructive, like the 60-foot Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over ...

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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? Will life eventually be wiped out by an asteroid? While we may never ...

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, ...

Imagine flying through space at speeds that defy the rules of our solar system, only for scientists to observe behaviour that challenges everything we thought we knew about cosmic wanderers.

Her baby couldn’t make it home for the holidays, but at least Dani Mendoza DellaGiustina had some out-of-this-world snapshots to keep herself warm. DellaGiustina is principal investigator for NASA’s ...

The calendar date alone commands attention. On Friday, April 13, 2029, an asteroid the size of a skyscraper will sweep closer to Earth than many satellites. It will not strike the planet, but its ...

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 ...