A meteorite that smashed through a home in McDonough, Georgia, has been found to be 4.56 billion years old, making it about ...

Space is filled with deadly forces, supernovae, gamma ray bursts, and asteroid impacts that can wipe out life in an instant.

"The findings suggest parts of Mars have been chemically and thermally active more recently than scientists once believed." ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. It now poses a threat to the moon, rather than Earth.

YR4 was detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS telescope, in Río Hurtado, Chile, two days ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all but gone, but we now have pictures of the once ...

Cubic zirconia, a popular diamond substitute, only occurs naturally under extreme conditions. Finding cubic zirconia in ...

The asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth at 7.59 p.m. ET (2359 GMT) on June 5, at which time it will pass 2,170,309 miles (3,492,787 kilometers) from our planet, over nine times the ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...