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

A rock measuring 900 meters is on a journey through our solar system, providing what is arguably one of the strongest pieces ...

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

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

The U.S. space agency measured the impact of its DART mission, revealing that the impact changed the orbit of two cosmic ...

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

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 ...

New observations have ruled out the chances of an asteroid hitting the moon in 2032, according to scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA’s DART mission changed the Dimorphos' asteroid orbit around the Sun, proving spacecraft impacts could help defend Earth.

Even 200 years after asteroid 16 Psyche was discovered, astronomers continue to puzzle over its formation. Psyche is the 10th ...

China signals new target for 2027 asteroid deflection test China has identified a new target near-Earth asteroid for its first planetary defense kinetic test mission, which is scheduled to launch in ...