COLORADO SPRINGS–Thirteen years ago a 20-m asteroid streaked without warning into Earth’s atmosphere before exploding over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,500 people and causing widespread ...

A tremendous explosion rocked the Tunguska region in Siberia in the early morning hours of June 30, 1908. The Tunguska ...

A space rock the size of a big stadium will pass closer to Earth than some of our own satellites on the evening of April 13, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the early days of earth, it was dangerous, hostile place to be. Luckily, by the time humans came around, things settled down a ...

A team of US astronomers has carried out one of the deepest analyses to date of a sample from the asteroid Bennu, revealing new details about how water and organic material interacted during the ...

The asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk injured around 1,500 people, damaged thousands of buildings, and exposed an uncomfortable truth: scientists completely missed it, even as they were ...

It’s the stuff of movies: an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, and we have to do something to stop it—or die. Disturbingly this scenario is also the stuff of the actual universe.

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Scientists studying Bennu samples have discovered that its chemistry is far from uniform. Organic compounds and minerals cluster into three distinct types of regions, each shaped differently by past ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...