World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

The Hera Space Companion provides updates on the European Space Agency ’s Hera Project, part of a global effort to defend earth against an asteroid strike that could have catastrophic effects. The ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Paleontologist and Geologist Dr. Ken Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about fossils. Can we ...

Photothermal AFM-IR offers detailed insights into polymer chemistry, aiding in the identification and quantification of ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of near-Earth asteroids, a Tucson astronomer says.

AFM-IR technology provides critical data on polymer compositions and properties, supporting the development of advanced ...

Zooming in on Bennu samples A top-down view of one of the containers holding rocks and dust from asteroid Bennu, with hardware scale marked in centimeters. This image was captured using manual ...