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The China National Space Administration plans to launch the asteroid sample-return mission TianWen-2 with the target being ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

After an asteroid struck Finland long ago, microscopic life colonized the impact site within a few million years, new research reveals. This article was originally published at Eos. The publication ...

NASA is monitoring a plane-sized asteroid expected to whiz past the Earth today at a speed of around 45,991 miles per hour. The space rock known as "2025 GH," is estimated to be about 120 feet across, ...

If something has happened, there’s a good chance that Nostradamus predicted it 500 years ago. Michel de Nostradame was a 16th-century French doctor who wrote hundreds of vague prophetic poems in his ...

The Taurid meteor shower—known for its “Halloween Fireballs” that illuminate the sky from late October to early November— could hold clues to future threats from space such as airbursts and actual ...