When a city-size asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs — and sent a monster tsunami rippling around the planet, according to new research. The asteroid, about ...

Around 3.4 billion years ago, when Mars was a warm, wet world, an asteroid several kilometers wide tore through its thin air and crashed into a shallow sea, leaving an expansive crater on the seafloor ...

When a six-mile-wide asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it didn’t just wipe out the dinosaurs. New findings suggest the impact triggered a massive earthquake that shook the planet for ...

A newly refined set of orbital calculations suggests that asteroid 2024 YR4 — once briefly considered a threat to Earth — could come unusually close to the Moon in late 2032. According to WPtech’s ...

To close this gap, NASA is building the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, a space telescope designed to detect asteroids using infrared rather than visible light. Its infrared sensors will detect both ...

ALMA Detects Most Enriched Concentration Of Methanol And Hydrogen Cyanide Observed In Any Comet Ever See Also: Meanwhile, ...

The asteroid, moving at about 44,000 miles per hour, was about 2 to 3 miles wide and blasted an enormous crater into the continental shelf of modern day Virginia, according to the U.S. Geological ...