Planet killer asteroids are space rocks that are 1 kilometer across or larger and could have a devastating effect on life. But smaller asteroids can cause regional devastation if they are ...

Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are asteroids or comets nudged into our neighborhood of space by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets. They are chunks of rock, metal or ice left over from the ...

New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.

However apocalyptic that might sound, the fact that we can imagine 2024 YR4’s impact is by design: Space agencies—particularly NASA—have become rather good at spotting asteroids. And two ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such ...

The company partnered with watchmaker Nubeo to create a timepiece that celebrates the 45th anniversary of the classic game.

“Asteroids provide a time capsule into our ... complex molecules that play indispensable roles in the structure, function and regulation of living organisms. Present also were all five ...

The ship at the center of the watch functions as a second hand, taking exactly one minute to perform a full rotation. There are also second and third rings that allow the asteroids and UFOs to ...

portray asteroids drifting through space and the UFOs that function as the hour and minute hands. All of the graphical elements on the Asteroids watch’s face are printed with glow-in-the-dark ...