The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

The incredible aftermath of the Chicxulub asteroid impact—one of the most cataclysmic events in Earth’s history—is unfolding beneath the seafloor of Louisiana. New research has uncovered massive ...

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-T) extinction, scientists are still finding stunning evidence of its destruction. In 2021, researchers ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

However, there is a 1.7% chance that it could impact the moon. In 2013, a small asteroid, just 60 feet wide, exploded over Russia, injuring more than 1,600 people. An asteroid big enough to wipe ...

The Earth bears geologic evidence of past cosmic impacts, such as the 125-mile-wide Chixculub Crater in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, which was the likely impact site of the 6-mile-wide asteroid ...