On June 30 1908, a significant asteroid impact event in the Tunguska area of Siberia wiped out 80 million trees across 830 ...

A house-sized asteroid is set to fly past Earth on 20 October. Known as 2024 SH1, the asteroid measures around 48 feet across ...

Scientists now say that's almost precisely what happened to the dinosaurs, on a much bigger scale: the asteroid that hit ...

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...

NASA has unveiled its strategy to counter potential asteroid threats in its National Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan ...

Meteorites have bombarded Earth for billions of years, often causing minimal damage but occasionally leading to cataclysmic events. Recent studies reveal that 70% of meteorites originate from three ...

Credit: ESA-Science Office The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. "Farewell, Earth!" the European Space Agency posted online. "Last week, after we successfully ...

Followed categories will be added to My News. The probe will head off on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft did to an asteroid when it smashed into it in 2022 during the first test ...

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock ...

bad asteroid—only that it impacted Earth around the same time some 66 million years ago. “We think it would have hit Earth at about 20 km per second, or 72,000 km per hour,” Uisdean ...