Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 DY5" and measuring about 92 feet across, will zip past our planet this ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Scientists have created a new 3D map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is just one of more than a ... Some asteroids are composed of rock, some iron, some are even made of precious metals, she said. “Think of a four-way stop, and the only way ...

An asteroid impact happens when the orbits of ... demonstrating some of the unintended consequences of smashing something into a space rock at roughly 14,760 mph. As the science writer Robin ...

Scientists have created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, revealing further the events that led to the devastating mass ...