A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

The largest moon in the solar system is Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter. New research suggests that an ...

Elon Musk has issued a warning for the public after a giant asteroid made a close approach to our planet. Reacting to ...

The results of his study suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters across could potentially nudge the asteroid onto a ...

Let’s start with a clear definition of what constitutes a mass extinction. Unlike regular extinctions, which occur at a steady background rate — about 10% of species lost every million years — mass ...

Scientists have estimated the size of an extinct flying reptile called a pterosaur, based on fragments of a fossil finger ...

The gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a blue whale, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by ...

To defend the Earth from nearby asteroids, China will reportedly adopt an “escort plus impact plus escort” mode, which is ...

New evidence supports the hypothesis that a fragmented comet triggered a dramatic climate change 12,800 years ago, with ...

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly ...

This asteroid, about the length of a commercial airliner, will come within 2.96 million miles of our planet—a distance that may seem vast but is relatively close in astronomical terms.