In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of ...

An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...

78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater 23 km (14 mi) wide and 750 m deep ...

Buried deep in Greenland's ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate. A sharp ...

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

After a catastrophic asteroid impact 78 million years ago, life didn't just survive—it thrived, at least according to new ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of ...

Scientists have discovered that microbial life colonised the Lappajarvi impact crater in Finland shortly after a massive ...

Researchers were able to determine that the asteroid came from the inner Asteroid Belt, the region between Mars and Jupiter, ...