Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

A story you may have seen recently claims an asteroid spotted this month by an astronomer turned out to be a Tesla in space.

South Islanders saw a fireball break through the atmosphere near Wānaka overnight with a loud sonic boom. The cause was a falling meteorite which became a fireball and raced above Queenstown around ...

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday.

Reports of a new asteroid were instead an astronomer mistaking Elon Musk’s orbiting roadster for a space rock. Allison ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, ...

YR4, an asteroid that currently has a more than 1 percent chance to hit the Earth in 2032, catching the attention of ...

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll ...

NASA has identified an asteroid with a more than 1 percent chance of striking Earth in December 2032, per a statement ...

On this week's episode: asteriod Bennu has building blocks of life, how polar bears keep ice off their fur, a dog discovers a ...