A sharp spike in platinum concentrations, discovered in an ice core (a cylinder of ice drilled out of ice sheets and glaciers ...

F or more than two decades, the Silverpit crater, a strange circular depression hidden under the North Sea, has baffled ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 is considered Earth's mini-moon and may be a key target for potential asteroid mining operations.

The extinction of dinosaurs reshaped rivers, forests, and landscapes—changes still recorded in the rock layers across North ...

Silverpit crater, 80 miles off Yorkshire, was formed 43 million years ago by an asteroid impact, says Scientists, ending decades of debate over its origin beneath the North Sea.

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

Rock layers deposited before and after the major dinosaur extinction event 65 million years ago are surprisingly different.

A giant space rock the size of New York's Chrysler Building will make a close pass by Earth Thursday, and it could get even ...

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, ...

Researchers studied samples returned by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission in 2020. The spacecraft visited the near-Earth asteroid between 2018 and 2019.

Sooner or later, a sizable asteroid could impact a populated area on Earth. How is the US, and the world, preparing?

Did a missile slam into a meteor over China? China has been racing ahead in the field of space, and is also preparing its ...