Some may eject huge plumes, while others could absorb the impact with less effect. “Every time we interact with an asteroid, we find something that surprises us, so there’s a lot more work to do,” ...

Late last year, a newly discovered asteroid caused quite a stir when initial observations revealed a greater than 1% chance that it would strike the Earth in 2032. The medium-sized asteroid, dubbed ...

If things go a certain way, we just might witness something not many humans have got to see with their own eyes in the history of our planet: a sizeable asteroid slamming into the Moon. And it's all ...

Artist's impression of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. At the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition 66 million years ago, an asteroid about 10 kilometers in ...

Can a 3.2-kilometre-wide scar under the North Sea rewrite part of Britain’s geology? More than two decades of argument have come to an end with new seismic imaging, microscopic rock examination, and ...

A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New evidence confirms that it was caused by an asteroid or comet impact about ...