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

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

This is fortunate as a deep impact would release an ... “While this asteroid no longer poses a significant impact hazard to Earth, 2024 YR4 provided an invaluable opportunity” for study ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims look at how close we really are extracting rare minerals ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

Seismic data reveals megaripples in Louisiana, formed by the Chicxulub asteroid’s tsunami 66 million years ago.

"Megaripples" in the seafloor that were created in the aftermath of the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact extend much farther than scientists originally thought, new research shows. The findings ...