Researchers discovered a 3.26-billion-year-old asteroid impact acted as 'giant fertilizer bomb,' aiding early microbial life.

Humanity is better prepared than ever before to prevent a large asteroid from crashing into Earth, but there's more work, and ...

The team's hypothesis calls for a temporary ring around Earth, which would explain why impacts were constrained to a ...

(Reuters) – Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur – an ancient flying reptile – with a wing span of about 7 feet (2 meters), a bony crest on front of its snout ...

Research supports the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, suggesting a comet fragment caused significant climatic changes and ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

For perspective, at its maximum estimated size of 460 meters, 2023 WK3 dwarfs India’s iconic Qutub Minar, which stands at 73 meters tall. The asteroid is over six times taller than this UNESCO World ...

NASA has raised a red alert for asteroid 2023 WK3, a massive space rock the size of a football stadium. Measuring 850 feet in diameter, it is travelling at an astonishing speed of 52,117 km/h. The ...

Although the Leonids are one of the most famous of all the annual meteor displays we certainly would not advertise them as a ...

Recently discovered asteroid 2023 DW has been predicted to have a close encounter with Earth on Feb. 14, 2046. See NASA's ...

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of the solar system. But after the discovery of Neptune in 1846, we’ve found no ...