NASA recently tracked asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially showed a 3 per cent chance of hitting Earth in 2032. New data shows it's no longer a threat, but the incident highlights the need for strong ...

Look up and be dumbstruck with wonder: the Lyrid meteor shower will grace the skies this month. Records of this celestial ...

For people in the northern hemisphere, brilliant fireballs are headed your way. The spectacular annual Lyrids meteor shower will illuminate the night sky between April 16-25 and you can spot as many ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is closing in on its second close encounter with an asteroid, expected to happen on April 20, 2025.

You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s ...

In the 2009 two-part miniseries Meteor (streaming now on Peacock), an asteroid breaks up and is surrounded by a swarm of meteor fragments which rain destructively down on the planet. In the real world ...

Why does the world store nuclear waste and just not shoot it into the Sun or deep space? – Jason, age 16, Mackay, Queensland.

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

NASA is working on a new space observatory, NEO Surveyor, the first spacecraft designed to assess the threats of asteroids well in advance. The mission launch date is expected to be in the fall of ...

Scientists have discovered where Earth's water comes from, and say that it wasn't brought to the planet by asteroid impacts ...

It can be a vicious cycle. Burdened by the belief that you don’t belong where you’ve ended up, you overwork yourself, aiming ...