The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

The John J. McCarthy Observatory - run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School - has been watching the night sky for 25 years.

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...

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A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...

A bus-size asteroid is racing through space on a trajectory that will bring it close to Earth, and NASA is watching it with ...

Picture trillionaires emerging not from tech startups or oil empires, but from space rocks floating millions of miles away. That's not science fiction anymore. Companies and space agencies are ...

NASA telescopes have so much data that a huge amount of it remains to be analysed. A high school student found 1.5 million objects in the universe on just one telescope designed to find asteroids. His ...

An American high school student has stunned the scientific world by developing an algorithm to map 1.5 million previously ...

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful ...