Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

There are literally decades of research... based on a premise that this article overturns,” said one paleontologist.

Fossils from New Mexico change how we look at dinosaur history.

DeGrasse Tyson, the world-renowned astrophysicist, spoke in front of 4,000 people at a summit in Erie in Oct. 29.

This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, ...

A new look at the "Dueling Dinosaurs" fossil reveals that Tyrannosaurus rex was not the only tyrannosaur roaming the land.

Asteroids, comets, and clouds contain complex organic molecules that form in space and might have kickstarted life on Earth ...

Scientists have uncovered a mysterious relic from an area of the moon that has never been explored by humans until now.

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, ...

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...