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

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

The transition from non-life to life was very likely aided by an asteroid hitting Earth, prebiotic chemistry, molecular ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to ...

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a ...

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

On November 1, 2023, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a ...

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...

A NASA planetary expert has revealed that humankind has no way to protect against a city-killer asteroid if it were to head ...