There could be a catastrophic threat lurking in space right now. We might not know until it’s too late. Near Earth, there are likely more than 25,000 asteroids large enough to level a city, according ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Thousands of asteroids—including hundreds of “distant worlds” located out beyond the orbit of Neptune and dozens of ...

We could deflect potentially hazardous asteroids by using an enormous magnet to gently pull them apart. This idea avoids some of the pitfalls of the more traditional kinetic impactor method, which ...

A model of the inner solar system shows asteroids discovered by the Rubin Observatory in light teal. Previously known asteroids are dark blue. The model highlights almost 12,700 asteroids that the ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story. For two decades, a team of researchers cloned mice from successive generations of clones until the new clones were no longer viable. Analysis of ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has discovered 2104 asteroids. Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA Before-and-after photos show changes Trump has made to ...

It ain't Selena Gomez. Or is it? After conspiracy theories emerged online that the "Love You Like a Love Song" singer was actually replaced by a clone, she poked fun at the speculation. In a skit ...

Famous skeptic Jenny McCarthy is weighing in on that bizarre Jim Carrey conspiracy theory. The actress shared her thoughts on the conspiracy theory, which suggested her ex has a clone that attended an ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The space rock—known as "2026 FB4"— is about 29 feet across and is set to make its closest approach to Earth tomorrow at ...

It’s like shooting a bullet with another bullet. Except the two — one the size of a trailer and the other as tall as the Empire State Building — are thousands of miles apart and moving at 7,000 miles ...