The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...

High in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, something extraordinary is happening. Perched on the peak of Cerro Pachón at ...

ASTRONAUTS visiting Mars could unearth a museum of alien fossils that may have belonged to an intelligent civilisation.

A MYSTERIOUS cosmic object has been spotted zooming through our solar system – and astronomers say it is only the third of ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has detected what could be only the third known object to enter our solar system from ...

International Asteroid Day is observed to help people understand how dangerous it could be if an asteroid ever hit the Earth.

It's possible that Mars' moons were originally asteroids that were captured by the planet's gravitational pull. There's also ...

The sun will eventually become a red giant, engulfing Earth in about 5 billion years. More solar energy hits Earth in one ...

International Asteroid Day aims to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard and to inform the public about the crisis communication actions to be taken at the global level in case ...

From a bar in the clouds to finding more water from the Moon, outer space is constantly surprising us. A vast universe Think ...

Claims that an asteroid or comet airburst destroyed the biblical Sodom captured the public’s imagination. Its retraction ...