On this week's episode of the Best of Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald: lizard bubble breathing, ancient puberty, zapping an ...

From asteroid impacts to nuclear war, learn about the most extreme ways Earth could be wiped off the map and what science says about their likelihood.

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

NASA has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique peanut shape.

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

If rocks could talk, this one (NWA 16788) would have a great tale to tell. It was ejected from its own planet by a massive ...

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

All eyes are on Comet 3I/Atlas as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of A11pl3Z, a massive new interstellar object entering our solar system.

Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object.