A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

NASA has upped the odds of a 200ft “city killer” asteroid smashing into the Moon in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was once feared ...

Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been a source of alarm ... northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, parts of Africa, the Arabian Sea and South Asia. However, some possible impact locations are densely ...

looking out for parts of the cosmic map where they can mark “here be dragons” — in this case, potentially hazardous asteroids or comets. When the asteroid’s many possible future orbits are ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 2.3% chance ... That would basically cover all of New York City and into parts of the nearby suburbs on Long Island, New Jersey, and up the Hudson Valley.

At first glance, feathers may seem like simple parts of a bird’s body. But if you look closer—under a microscope or through a ...

Wes Anderson was asked if there’s a dream collaborator he has yet to work with, and he named Jodie Foster, saying he's ...

When a rubble pile asteroid passes by a sufficient source of gravity, such as a planet or star, the pull of gravity will cause the rubble to shift, with some parts stretching out and changing shape.

One thing the collection team noticed: The material that flew off the asteroid was redder than the surface they shot at, which had a bluer tinge. Some parts of Ryugu appear almost striped – the ...