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 ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

A strange metal rich asteroid called Psyche may be the exposed core of an ancient failed planet, and NASA’s mission could finally reveal what lies beneath its battered surface.

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 ...

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Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice and rock. For years, scientists wondered how these delicate two-lobed shapes ...

Join the Scouts as they face a giant cookie asteroid and work together to protect their school in this animated series from Nickelodeon Studios.

With the Earth moving between the moon and the sun, its giant shadow changing the moon's reflected glow from ivory to a reddish color.

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday7Asteroid 7 Iris reaches opposition at 1 P.M. EST today. Now ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

NASA's top planetary defense expert reveals the biggest threat isn't Hollywood-style doomsday rocks, but undiscovered ...

We all have a concept of reality. We know what is “fact” and what isn’t. However, the truth of the matter is that the definition of “real” is a mere construct of the brain. If that didn’t blow your ...