While airlines do all they can to make flying safe, there is one threat to aviation that even they can't do much about: space ...

A massive 540-foot asteroid 2014 TN17, which is twice the size of the Taj Mahal, is heading in the direction of Earth at ...

The “Alpine Start” is a revered tradition in hiking circles. Hiking guides, outdoor forums and trail reviews ooze with the same advice – arrive early, and have your boots on the trail by sunup.

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

TN17 will safely pass Earth this time, NASA's warning serves as a reminder of the lurking dangers in space. Scientists and ...

We could experience a rock market crash. Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out ...

A meteor shower occurs when the Earth passes through a cloud of debris from either a comet or asteroid, and this debris, or rock, gets so hot that it glows, appearing to us as shooting stars or ...

As concerns over Earth’s limited resources continue to grow ... Asteroid Mining Corporation plans to send its SCAR-E robot to the moon in a future mission headed by Tokyo-based iSpace. The six-legged ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...