With no atmosphere to slow it down, asteroid 2024 YR4 could carve a 1-km-wide crater—the largest fresh lunar scar in 5,000 ...

Around 66 million years ago, a 12-kilometre-wide asteroid travelling at 43,000 km/h crashed into Earth, triggering one of the ...

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the moon in 2032, to cut the risk of the collision debris destroying satellites.

Fleet Space Technologies, Australia’s leading space exploration company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with ExLabs ...

An international study led by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil has identified a little-known but potentially significant threat: Asteroids that share Venus's orbit and may ...

Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea was formed by an influence of asteroid over 43 million years ago, confirmed by scientists. This is addressing a decades-long geological debate. Since its ...

In a new paper, scientists argued that our best option is to blow up asteroid 2024 YR4 as part of a "kinetic disruption ...

International team of researchers discovered and successfully dated, for the first time ever, the birth of microorganisms in a meteorite crater.

An international team of researchers, including Western's Gordon Osinski, discovered and successfully dated - for the first time ever - the birth of ...

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon ...

Scientists have finally confirmed that a mysterious crater half a mile beneath the North Sea was carved out by a massive asteroid strike more than 43 million years ago—ending decades of debate over ...

Scientists have finally solved a decades-long mystery about a strange crater deep under the North Sea. The Silverpit Crater, first discovered in 2002, has now been confirmed as the result of a massive ...