Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton space ...

Bennu looked far different up close than scientists expected, and that mismatch led to a deeper investigation into how asteroid surfaces behave. What researchers found in returned samples helped ...

A six-foot, six-ton asteroid passed over northeastern Ohio on March 17, bringing the possibility of fragmented pieces scattered across a wide area.

A documentary filmmaker sparked a discussion of advanced Martian civilizations after sharing footage that appeared to depict ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Is there anyone John Lithgow can’t — or won’t — play? Is there anyone John Lithgow can’t — or won’t — ...

Scientists have uncovered a hellish “lava world” where temperatures soar to a blistering 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit — hot enough to melt rock into a churning ocean of magma and fill the air with the ...

A mysterious metal-rich asteroid called Psyche has been baffling scientists for over two centuries, and its true origin ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new world just 35 light-years from Earth – one permanently covered in a vast ocean of molten rock. The exoplanet, known as L 98-59 d, defies existing models of ...

Wright-Patterson has played a central role in the US military’s real investigations into mysterious objects in the sky — from Cold War-era research programs to efforts to study what the government now ...

In a series of experiments at Johns Hopkins University, Lily Zhao fired tiny samples of a microorganism with a room-sized gas ...

In the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree sits Giant Rock, one of the largest freestanding boulders in North America. But the rock’s story is far stranger than its size. In the 1930s a hermit named Frank ...

A Guatemalan man in the U.S. illegally was sentenced to four years in prison Monday for possession of a firearm by an alien and possession of a firearm by a felon.