The educator and broadcaster on the search for life beyond Earth, what we might gain from mining on the Moon — and how to divert a killer asteroid ...

Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon seven years from now.

The asteroid struck with more force than a billion nuclear bombs. Fires ignited across continents. Tsunamis tore across oceans. Then the real killer arrived — a global winter that starved the planet ...

Today is one astronomers, stargazers and alien conspiracy theorists have been waiting for: interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is as ...

This surreal Icelandic canyon could be straight out of a mythical legend.

Depending on how you look at it, this catchphrase from a 1980s pop song is decently accurate: you can actually melt the ...

Everyone's favorite interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, flew past Earth overnight, coming within about 168 million miles (270 million kilometers) of our planet.

The mystifying 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet is blazing toward Earth and will soon come as close to our planet as it ever will.

Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and destructive than previously thought, according to new research. Unlike ...

While online conspiracies swirl, comet 3I/ATLAS made a close pass by Earth on Dec. 19, giving astronomers a rare glimpse of a ...

As ever, there's a huge selection box of cinematic treats being shown on the small screen over the festive period.

The tiny flash was the result of a small object, perhaps no larger than a golf ball, crashing into the Moon at breakneck ...