Last autumn, Robert Carver, director of NASA’s workforce strategy office, received the Romney Institute Alumnus of the Year ...

Asteroids have struck Earth occasionally over its long history, often with cataclysmic results. An asteroid estimated at 6-9 ...

'Planet parade' isn't a technical term in astronomy but it is one widely used to describe the alignments of planets. The current four which are visible to the naked eye are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and ...

The European climate service Copernicus says the world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an ...

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Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

Pilots and air traffic controllers notified authorities about airplanes and helicopters flying alarmingly close at Reagan ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

It is as wide as the wing span of a 747 and has a 1 in 83 chance of hitting the Earth when it arrives in 2032. David Moore of ...

It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one ...

Dr. Pascal Lee is a planetary scientist with the SETI Institute, Mars Institute and NASA Ames Research Center in California.

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that followed the initial one ...