Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

It's fun to look at the objects around you and think about what materials they're made from. Aluminium cans are the most recycled item in the world. Most medieval castles in the UK are made from ...

geologically-active world glowing in the deep red light of its nearby parent star, the M dwarf Gliese 876. Credit: Trent Schindler, National Science Foundation. An artist’s imagination of ...

A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

Through more than 120 artifacts, the exhibition illustrates the importance of art and science in the French royal court. Many of the objects show ... his 72-year reign a world record.” ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

A NASA probe made history Christmas Eve after becoming the closest human-made object to the sun ... Thomas Zurbuchen, former head of science for NASA, said: 'NASA's Parker Solar Probe has ...