A large asteroid, 535844 (2015 BY310), will pass the Planet Earth at a distance of about 3.7 million kilometers. Moving at 28 ...

A rare earth element called thorium has been discovered in large quantities in China's Bayan Obo mining complex in the Inner ...

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FOR a brief window, Asteroid 2024 YR4 looked like a planetary hazard in the making. At up to 90m in diameter, it was ...

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This week, follow the journeys of two lunar landers, meet “woolly mice,” see the oldest known bone tools, and more.

NASA has issued an earthly arrival date for an asteroid valued at a staggering £10,000,000,000,000,000,000. The government ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...