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

A remarkable scientific breakthrough has resolved a long-standing debate about the origin of the Silverpit crater, located deep below the North Sea, off the coast of Yorkshire. After years of ...

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

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

An ancient asteroid impact in Australia is revealed in shards of glass created when the giant space rock collided with the ...

Scientists have found proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago causing a huge tsunami and ...

This week, scientists digging in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert have discovered a new species of pachycephalosaur that pushes back ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Our planet has apparently had a small companion that went undetected for decades. What took so long to find it and why was it hidden?

Hayabusa2 is now facing an unexpected challenge: the asteroid it is targeting for its next visit is much smaller than ...

The American Apophis Strategy is simple, powerful, and cost-effective: keep OSIRIS-APEX on track and unleash Janus through a public-private partnership. This would put the U.S. in the lead — not just ...

It wouldn’t be a 9-1-1 premiere without disaster striking hard. This time, it’s falling straight from the sky. ABC just ...