asteroid

A private company is aiming to heave a microwave oven-size spacecraft toward an asteroid later this week, its goal to…

An asteroid discovered late last year is continuing to stir public interest as its odds of striking planet Earth less…

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a…

A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics…

During the past year, there’s been an unusual set of samples at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory…

Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu…

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused…