Scientists have identified Brazil's first known field of tektites, the glassy material created when an asteroid or other extraterrestrial object…
When NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned material from asteroid Bennu in 2023, scientists confirmed that the 4.6 billion year old rocks…
Selecting the right spot to smash a spacecraft into the surface of a hazardous asteroid to deflect it must be…
The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 pummelling into the moon in December 2032 has been increased by new data gathered…
Scientists say that dinosaurs weren't doomed when an asteroid hit Earth. Fossil unearthings before the asteroid collision, at the end…
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of…
Concerns regarding asteroid 2024 YR4 have diminished, as NASA has revised the probability of its impact on Earth in 2032…
A near-Earth object recently classified as an asteroid has been identified as Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, which was launched into…
NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which orbited the asteroid Vesta in 2012, captured images of mysterious gullies on its surface, raising questions…
Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the…