On the final day of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago, Earth was teeming with a dazzling variety of dinosaurs.

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth mass extinction. You’re reading that correctly: throughout Earth’s ...

Artemis II live: Nasa astronauts describe mission highlights from Orion spacecraft after circling Moon - Nasa crew described the awe they felt when witnessing a rare eclipse near the Moon’s far side ...

NASA's Artemis II astronauts swung around the moon in their Orion spacecraft on Monday, coming within 4,067 miles of the lunar surface.

Crew, which includes Canadian Jeremy Hansen, broke record for greatest distance travelled by humans away from Earth set by Apollo 13 in 1970 ...

Donald Trump has hailed the astronauts of the Artemis II mission, saying they have “made history and made all of America really proud”. In a call to the crew of four, who flew further from Earth than ...

Mars, you see, has one-third of Earth’s gravity, making it plausible that human beings could live entire lives there and ...

People on the ground in the Eastern Hemisphere will be able to observe the asteroid with their own eyes, weather permitting, ...

NASA says of Apophis passing by that it is likely "an event like this has not happened at any time in recorded human history.

A rare asteroid will soon be visible to the naked eye in a rare celestial event, according to astronomers. Asteroid 99942 ...

The space rock is expected to make its closest approach at around 848,000 miles from the Earth, according to NASA.