A 120-foot asteroid, similar in size to a small plane, is set to make a close flyby of Earth today. While it will pass within ...

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

New research challenges what we know of our planet’s ancient past, suggesting that a ring formed around the Earth around 466 ...

The deposits left by the asteroid impact at Chicxulub, Mexico, are similar to other asteroids from the outer solar system.

Last year, an immense but brief outburst of seismic energy was soon followed by a long hum that made the world ring. Finding ...

Today, NASA has issued a notice regarding a significant celestial event. A 510-foot asteroid, approximately the size of a ...

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

Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: ...

A new study revealed that a massive asteroid may have hit Jupiter’s moon Ganymede about 4 billion years ago, shifting the ...

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Excavations in North Dakota reveal fossils of fish and ...

The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in diameter. The collision was devastating: rocks from deep within Earth’s crust were raised 25 kilometres ...

Around 66 million years ago, a rock over 6 miles wide collided with Earth, triggering the mass extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs and leaving a giant impact crater off the coast of Mexico ...