Asteroid 2024 YR4’s composition is still unknown and can only be viewed by high-powered telescopes in the southern hemisphere. Its impact on Earth could be as powerful as a 75 megaton nuclear ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, which successfully landed on the Moon on March 2, 2025, has made strides in exploring ...
The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...
New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...
Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.
An asteroid impact happens when the orbits of the object and the Earth intersect, like two cars trying to merge onto the highway. Get enough data, do some math, and scientists can figure out with ...
These findings may change how scientists perceive and understand the origin of life on Earth. “Before our discovery, the oldest impact crater was 2.2 billion years old, so this is by far the oldest ...
Seismic data reveals megaripples in Louisiana, formed by the Chicxulub asteroid’s tsunami 66 million years ago.