Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

A rare rock sample, containing natural cubic zirconia, from West Clearwater Lake. Credit: Jeff Renaud For more than a decade, Western University planetary geologist Gordon "Oz" Osinski has led ...

On April 13, 2029, a chunk of rock roughly the size of the Eiffel Tower will thread the gap between Earth and the ring of communications satellites that orbit our planet. The asteroid, named 99942 ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

On December 22, 2032, a sixty-metre-wide asteroid may strike the Moon. If this happens, it will not only produce a visible flash, easily spotted from Earth, but will likely be followed by periodic ...

The event that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't all bad. The low-light environment caused by the meteor impact some 66 million years ago favored the spread of fungi that feed on organic matter, which ...

A new study suggests meteor impacts may have created hydrothermal systems on early Earth, offering a possible setting for the origin of life.

Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands ...

Russian authorities claim to have found the impact sites of some of the fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. Two have been found near Chebarkul Lake—one of ...