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 long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

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

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

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

Initially, much uncertainty surrounded the flight path of the space rock known as 2024 YR4, a small asteroid that has ...

A new study appears to have found evidence of a binary pair of asteroids transferring material to each other, the first ...

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

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

NASA’s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense. NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft changed the ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is big and dangerous enough that it has been dubbed a "city killer." There were concerns that the asteroid ...