The first few billion years of Earth's history saw the rise of life, the atmosphere and the oceans. Still, that time is ...

The asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also created an underground environment suited to supporting new ...

Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the ...

Meteorite that wiped out dinosaurs helped create underground life haven for eight million years - Scientists made the finding ...

Mercury may have gotten much of its polar ice within a single Mercurian day following a massive asteroid impact, a new study ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

Illustration of an asteroid the passing the Moon as it approaches Earth. Near-Earth asteroids are a constant threat to our planet. In the pantheon of apocalyptic science fiction stories, the ...

One team of researchers found that any individual is more likely to die from an asteroid impact than from a lightning strike.

Asteroids 2026 LD and 2026 KM3, both comparable in size to airplanes, will make a close approach to Earth on June 9, 2026.