While no imminent asteroid threats have been found for Earth, Chinese scientists discussed two ways to deflect a space rock ...

International Asteroid Day highlights global efforts to detect, track and deflect potentially hazardous asteroids while ...

On June 30, 1908, an asteroid tore across the sky above a remote part of Siberia before erupting in a cataclysmic explosion.

Earth’s oldest asteroid impact crater may just have been found - Researchers date North Pole Dome in Australia’s Pilbara region to over 3 billion years ago ...

On June 30, 1908, an enormous explosion in a remote stretch of Siberia flattened and bruned nearly 1,000 square miles of ...

China is developing a space-ground integrated monitoring network for planetary defence. This system will combine ground ...

Joël Lapointe, stumbled upon what he thought looked like a suspicious pit in Quebec's Côte-Nord region while he was wandering ...

Across the planet, lakes are usually associated with glaciers, rivers, volcanic activity, or shifting tectonic landscapes. A much smaller group owes its existence to something far less common.

Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision created a vast underground ecosystem filled with hot water that sheltered m ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago The Chicxulub impactor At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million ...

Earth and the Moon both record evidence of a 'lost' period of bombardment. (NASA) Tiny crystal grains trapped inside a meteorite may be the key that unlocks a hidden era in the Solar System's history ...

Did you know that Arizona is home to the world's best-preserved meteorite impact site? The Meteor Crater Natural Landmark is ...