Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.

Estimating the mass of a potentially dangerous asteroid remains a key parameter for planetary protection, but traditional radio frequency tracking methods do not allow accurate measurement of small ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds. The work demonstrates that ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

Residents around B.C. reported hearing a loud boom and seeing a bright flash of light in the sky Tuesday evening. Experts say ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

"A meteor the size of a softball can produce a flash as bright as the full moon and qualify as a fireball," Lunsford said in ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving our solar system. See new photos from a European Space Agency orbiter on its way to Jupiter.

A study by scientists from Johns Hopkins University has shown that microbes trapped in asteroid debris can migrate to other planets, including Earth, and survive. This was reported on March 3 by the ...

Star Wars: Shadows of Maul #1, by Benjamin Percy and Madibek Musabekov, is an official prelude to Shadow Lord. It’s largely ...

Charli XCX’s new movie The Moment is a smash: Deadline reported recently that the film had a limited opening that grossed just under $107,000 per screen (four screens total), the third-biggest limited ...

After the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster, American astronaut Edward Lu had just nine weeks to learn how to fly the Soviet-era Soyuz spacecraft. That's no mean feat: most people take at least a year ...