"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

If we did learn that it would hit on December 22, 2032, astronomers say they could pinpoint the landing area with a few ... low probability risk of impact with a big asteroid might rate the ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...

Still, it is a pretty big blast, that could damage a city-wide area," Hainaut added ... the researchers estimated that an impact by a Bennu-sized asteroid would inject 100 to 400 million tons ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...