This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature photographed for the first time, and more.

Identified by astronomers in August 2024 near Earth, a small space rock is likely a fragment of the moon that broke off thousands of years ago. ... Continue Reading → ...

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On Christmas Day 2024 researchers found a huge 196-foot space rock that has only 1 percent of a chance of hitting Earth.

ANDES stands for ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. AndES is a high-resolution instrument that can search for signs of life on Earth-like planets. The detection of biosignatures from ...

One lucky East Lancashire stargazer caught a glimpse of the rare celestial phenomenon - the planetary alignment.

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

“RuPaul’s Drag Race,” season 17, episode five, airs at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, on MTV. The storyline is, “Live from Tuckahoe, ...

However, the 74 million tonne space rock, which was first discovered in 1999, could potentially strike Earth in around one hundred years time. NASA has calculated there is a 0.037 per cent – or one in ...

The exoplanet HD 20794d swoops in and out of its habitable zone every few hundred days, making for an extreme climate.

A Google Earth sleuth claims to have found a figure that looks like an alien's face in the snow in Antarctica.  A satellite image shared on the r/strangeearth Reddit page last week has sparked ...