On 12 August 2026, a total solar eclipse will be visible from Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain, making it the first to pass over mainland Europe since 1999. Our stories cover all you need to know ...

NASA is currently tracking a car-sized asteroid set to zip past the Earth tomorrow, February 17, at a whopping 12,616 miles per hour. The space rock, 2026 CR2, is estimated to be about 9.7 feet across ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

In the long shadow of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, life appears to have bounced back with surprising speed. A new analysis of sedimentation rates suggests that the first wave of marine ...

17:36, Mon, Feb 16, 2026 Updated: 17:43, Mon, Feb 16, 2026 A top astronomer responsible for defending the Earth against asteroids has revealed what keeps her up at night — thousands of “city killer” ...

She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

EARTH cannot defend itself against the thousands of “city killer” asteroids that are zooming around space near our planet, Nasa chiefs warn. They reckon there are about 15,000 undetected medium-sized ...

Dr Chabot led the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) mission, which deliberately crashed a specially made spacecraft into a mini-moon called Dimorphos at 14,000mph to alter its orbit. The mission ...