2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...

Donald Trump dodged a bullet. America dodged an asteroid. How can we miss Dementia Joe when he won’t go away? Let’s roll the ...

I’d like to have less anxiety. Well, that and a trip to the moon. Wait a minute. Who am I kidding? There is no way I’d go to the moon.

This time, the victim is so rare that it was once thought to have been extinct 65 million years ago and is known by the moniker “living fossil”. This week, pictures have surfaced of a dead Coelacanth ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 foot-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in ...

The fossilized neck bone of a flying reptile unearthed in Canada shows tell-tale signs of being bitten by a crocodile-like creature 76 million years ago, according to a new study.

The strange asteroid behaves like a comet and orbits the sun every 1.4 years. When Earth passes through the debris left behind by Phaethon the "asteroid crumbs" heat up as they enter Earth's ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.

Image Credit: t.m. urban / Shutterstock. Study: Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago In a recent article in the journal Communications Earth & Environment ...