The discovery of a new tektite-strewn field in northeastern Brazil points to a large meteorite impact—but geologists have yet ...

A cosmic collision off the Yorkshire coast triggered a mega-tsunami taller than Big Ben that swept across the prehistoric North Sea - and scientists have finally confirmed it. Following two decades of ...

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, has produced a result that goes well beyond what the mission ...

A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

The asteroid struck off the coast of England more than 43 million years ago ...

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t keep life down for long. New research shows that microscopic plankton began evolving into new species within just a few thousand years—and ...

On December 22, 2032, a sixty-metre-wide asteroid may strike the Moon. If this happens, it will not only produce a visible flash, easily spotted from Earth, but will likely be followed by periodic ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...