The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

Artist's impression of NASA's DART mission, which collided with the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022 to test planetary defense techniques ...

The Leonids is a typical meteor shower most years, on pace with others such as the Lyrids and Orionids with around 15 ...

NASA shares update on potential for city-destroying asteroid and says the chance of the asteroid hitting Earth are very slim.

Despite previous research, Earth's long-gone mega-reptiles probably weren't dying off before an impact winter did them in for ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

After all the space drama, astronomers have figured out what that "city killer" asteroid actually looks like: a flat, ...

A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences ...

The space rock was first detected in December and was initially considered to have a chance of striking Earth in 2032.

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates through space on a trajectory that could see it hit the moon.