Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...

Asteroid impacts are typically linked with mass extinctions and catastrophic events. However, recent studies have unearthed a more optimistic view of these cosmic collisions. Researchers have found ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres, scientists expected to find a cold, inactive relic of the early solar system.

At first glance, you many not guess that this feature on Mars is an impact crater. The reason it looks so unusual is that it likely is a triple impact crater, formed when three asteroids struck all at ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is about 60 metres long, may hit the Moon in December of the year 2032. Scientists assured that Earth is ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring the Jezero Crater for years, and it's finally found a potential meteorite, now ...

A Japanese space mission that has been studying an asteroid not far from Earth will try Thursday night (Friday in Japan) to fire a copper projectile at its surface. The goal is to create a crater on ...

Depending on where you smack a planet-threatening asteroid, it might ricochet back to Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A rock no bigger than a golf ball could have caused the recent lunar impact, according to the observatory. At an ultra-high ...