The Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis is set to launch in 2028. It forms the cornerstone of a planetary defence programme designed to protect our planet from the risk of collision with near-Earth ...

NOAA confirms the 'golden orb' found in Alaska is part of a giant sea anemone base, but the rest of the creature remains ...

A decades-long fight over what carved a vast crater deep beneath the North Sea seabed has ended. Microscopic “shocked” ...

With innovative approaches to life-threatening diseases and natural disasters, UC San Diego researchers are making critical ...

A recent study reveals an asteroid breaking apart near the Sun, with debris traveling through the inner solar system, ...

In the early days of earth, it was dangerous, hostile place to be. Luckily, by the time humans came around, things settled down a bit. But in the millions of years before mankind evolved, the earth ...

File this in the “Better to learn about after-the-fact file”: A large asteroid flew past Earth Tuesday night, just days after it was discovered. The car-sized space rock, known as “2026 FM3,″ came ...

In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, crashing a spacecraft into asteroid Dimorphos to prove that we don’t have to ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA is currently monitoring a car-sized asteroid set to zoom past the Earth on March 25 at a speed of around 12,168 ...

The asteroid will make a close approach to Earth just three days following its discovery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Life on Earth may have origins from far, far away. Scientists have found a full set of life-building molecules in a nearly pristine asteroid sample, and the discovery suggests that the necessary ...

AI-generated image of the asteroid impact. Cracking a cold case is always tricky. But figuring out one from 43 million years ago is almost impossible. Yet in 2009, a group of scientists tried to do ...