Earlier this month, Organic Geochemistry Laboratory manager Lennart van Maldegem posed a question to a group of eighth graders from behind a table jumbled with jars of candy, food coloring and ...

In a bit of ominous news befitting a Friday the 13th: It turns out that the asteroid Apophis could have a very small chance of colliding into Earth in five years, when it is expected to make a close ...

Asteroid debris from a moonlet that was partially exploded by a NASA spacecraft could soar across the skies of Earth and create a stunning light show. Rocket scientist Dr. Eloy Peña-Asensio, from the ...

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A defunct, Soviet-era spacecraft is falling back to Earth uncontrolled, but experts say there’s little cause for alarm. The half-ton craft, known as Kosmos-482, was designed to land on Venus but ...