An asteroid is expected to eventually hit Earth, highlighting the importance of preparing for such an event. This video ...

A meteor cluster reveals an asteroid disintegrating near the Sun. These observations help uncover hidden asteroids and ...

In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, crashing a spacecraft into asteroid Dimorphos to prove that we don’t have to ...

A new study reveals a previously unknown meteorite impact that took place in northeastern Brazil some 6.3 million years ago. An international team of scientists found a 900-kilometer-long "strewn ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In its 4.6-billion-year history, Earth has had some truly catastrophic run-ins with ancient celestial bodies. None rival the cataclysmic collision ...

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t keep life down for long. New research shows that microscopic plankton began evolving into new species within just a few thousand years—and ...

An asteroid that struck Earth more than 43 million years ago likely generated a 100-metre tsunami, a group of scientists recently announced. The study may put an end to the debate surrounding the ...

A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

WASHINGTON — The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to be off the table. Discovered at the end of December 2024, ...

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to be off the table. Discovered at the end of December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

Hardy bacteria could survive the trip from one planet to another, hidden among the debris from an asteroid impact, a new study suggests, providing possible evidence for a theory that the seeds of life ...