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 near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

The investigative minds at Debunked explore scientific strategies and possibilities for surviving a catastrophic asteroid ...

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Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs, along ...

Two asteroids will be passing perilously close to Earth in the near future. What do we know about them, and what preparations ...

An interstellar comet spotted by NASA is headed for our solar system, showing up near Earth later this year, but it's another ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

A recent study claims to have found new geochemical evidence of an Earth-altering comet impact at the end of the last ice age ...