Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Earth's atmosphere, traveling 45,000 miles per hour. The asteroid ripped a hole 18 miles deep in the Earth's crust, triggering devastating winds, seismic waves, and tsunamis. For...

Asteroids, ho! Pioneering space miners dream of Psyche, the largest metal asteroid in the solar system.

Learn all about giant creatures that roamed the earth long before humans, dinosaurs! Understand the differences between velociraptors, protoceratops, the mighty T-rex and more! How did they live? What did they eat? And why did they go...

Bailey is planning a fun summer day's activity with Boggs. Bailey realizes that knowing what the weather will be is important and comes to understand that the middle of the day is the hottest time. They learn about keeping themselves...

How did dinosaurs get their names? What were the dinosaurs like? How long ago did they live? Can a dinosaur be created from DNA? Did they take care of their young? Why did they die out... or did they? In the Cretaceous Period! This is...

A new venture called Planetary Resources plans to announce on Tuesday plans to mine asteroids for precious metals. The new company is backed by film director James Cameron and Googles Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, among other proponents....

Scientists believe there are oceans buried under thick crusts of ice on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. Sampling them would raise hope of life beyond Earth

Psyche Mission Co-investigator Ben Weiss discusses the mission to a unique metal asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

When Earth was just a baby, meteors and asteroids rained down, delivering all sorts of chemicals to our developing planet. These small objects could have delivered the chemicals needed to spark life on Earth for the first time.

What’s in a name? Whether you call it a planet or an asteroid, missions that explore small worlds are always exciting.

Copper lights the way, nano delivers for osteoarthritis, machine learning fast tracks a gene hunt, and new tech breaks through sign language barriers. It’s 4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This...

NASA and the European Space Agency are joining hands for a planetary defense mission in order to learn how to protect Earth from a possible asteroid collision. <br/>

This live-action video program is about the word Asteroid. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Asteroid through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...

Scientists will soon have the opportunity to visit a unique object in the asteroid belt called Psyche, which may be the exposed metallic core of a planetary body that stopped growing before it became a big planet like Earth. Dr. Lindy...

NASA has been on the lookout for any asteroid that could cause our planet harm and, in the thousands of objects found, determined that none poses a threat to Earth.

NASA has come up with a plan to protect the Earth from asteroids, in the unlikely event that one were to hit the planet.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestial bodies, Vesta and Ceres. But what did it do and discover while it was there?

A large asteroid classified as “potentially hazardous” by NASA will zoom past Earth on March 21, according to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies <br/>

A 330-meter-wide asteroid, around the size of the Eiffel Tower, is heading towards Earth, and is expected to pass us by on December 11, according to NASA.

Oumuamua and Borisov are not the only interstellar interlopers. We know of many more. Here's what we know about them so far.

Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker’s love of exploration changed our understanding of the cosmos.

From comets to the very special birth of a star, get your telescopes and calendars at the ready as AllTime10's brings you 10 Astronomical Events That Will Happen In Your Lifetime!

Asteroid impact gets sole credit for wiping out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, according to new research.

The European Space Agency is planning a mission to redirect an asteroid by crashing a spacecraft into it. Mission Don Quixote consists of two spacecraft. One will smash into an asteroid to try and alter its course, the other will gather...