James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.

Humans are not the most rational beings when it comes to fear, especially about things that are interesting and dramatic in ...

Scientists have figured out the odds of a person dying from an asteroid over a human lifetime. In a strange experiment, they compared it with other scenarios that can kill human beings, such as ...

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it ...

KTLA speaks with Davide Farnocchia, navigation engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who works in the agency’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. He shares how scientists tracked the ...

Xana Kerndole was stabbed over 50 times by Bryan Kohberger and desperately fought for her life against her killer, who armed himself with a KA-BAR Knife.

A man was sentenced July 2 following a plea deal related to a fatal shooting in downtown Austin in March 2021.

‘Dexter: Resurrection’: Krysten Ritter, Eric Stonestreet & David Dastmalchian on the New Serial Killer Crew ...

The planet killer that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs was estimated to be roughly 6 miles (about 10 kilometers) in diameter. Smaller asteroids such as ...

‘City killer’ on the moon The threatening hunk of rock appears as just a speck of light through even the strongest astronomical tools.