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

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

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

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

To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...

In 2029, asteroid Apophis will skim safely past Earth, where it will be visible to billions. For scientists, it's a once-in-a ...

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

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

The Administration wants steep cuts to science and technology, which fuels economic growth and bolsters national security.

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including ...

Changes in rock formations from before and after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago may reflect how dinosaurs ...