NASA only labels space rocks as hazardous if they are closer than 7.4 million kilometres and wider than 85 metres.

Scientists from MIT explore how life could exist without water, using ionic liquids in extreme planetary environments.

For decades, astronomers have searched for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence using radio telescopes and optical ...

A meteorite that plummeted into the roof and living room of a house in McDonough, Georgia, has now been found to be 20 ...

What are the odds that a meteorite would fall on you? According to an astronomer’s estimations, they are 1 in 700,000. Until recently, there was no evidence that such an incident had ever occurred.

Violent black hole collisions may create black hole 'morsels' no larger than an asteroid — and these bizarre objects could pave the way to unlocking new physics, a study claims.

Lab experiments show 'ionic liquids' can form through common planetary processes and might be capable of supporting life even ...

Scott Manley examines the top ten most astonishing asteroids ever documented, from rare binary systems to objects with ...

The bigger of the two asteroids is travelling at a speed of 6.4 km per second while the smaller one is racing at 7.2 km per second. Despite their velocity, NASA confirms they will safely pass by, ...

As explained by Scott Harris, a researcher in the department of geology at the University of Georgia’s (UGA’s) Franklin ...