In the early days of the solar system asteroid impacts were much more common than they are today. While the planets were ...

A “killer asteroid,” large enough to decimate Baltimore and the surrounding areas, may be heading toward Earth at this very ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

A colossal asteroid named 2023 WK3 is making a close approach to Earth on November 18, 2024.

Billions of years ago, a giant asteroid struck the moon with so much energy that it melted rock until it was super-heated and white-hot, or what scientists call impact melt. This eventually cooled and ...

For perspective, at its maximum estimated size of 460 meters, 2023 WK3 dwarfs India’s iconic Qutub Minar, which stands at 73 meters tall. The asteroid is over six times taller than this UNESCO World ...

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span ...

A young man who headed a magic mushroom syndicate inside a western Sydney rental made a string of bizarre comments to police, ...

Research supports the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, suggesting a comet fragment caused significant climatic changes and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of galaxies from a time when the Universe was less than a billion years ...