NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies has ruled out any chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon in 2032, ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

The technology is far from the only existential risk our species faces. But weighing such cosmic fears can become a ...

Learn how feathers in dinosaur poop from the Hell Creek Formation could help explain why some birds survived the mass ...

An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did ...

A new study reveals that a piece of ancient dung contains the best-preserved 3D feather ever discovered from the dinosaur age ...

Dinosaur poop—possibly from a juvenile T. rex or Nanotyrannus—containing feathers, bone fragments, and fish scales provides a ...

Nightmare scenarios of AI-engineered super-plagues or nuclear bombs have, understandably, attracted the most attention. But there is lots of lower-hanging fruit for terrorists.

When it crash-landed on a remote island in the Great Lakes, the space rock that broke the sound barrier when it entered Earth ...

When an asteroid collided with Earth 66 million years ago, spewing clouds of dust into the air and creating hellish conditions for every living thing on the planet, all the large dinosaurs perished.

Not long ago, astronomers were surprised to find rings around the distant world of Chariklo. Looking at it again using the JWST, the rings have surprised us once more.

The new Cosmos update, arriving Wednesday as part of No Man’s Sky ’s 10th anniversary, is one of the biggest updates the game ...