The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

A newly identified impact scar in southern China has turned a quiet patch of countryside into one of the most important ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This ...

A massive meteor struck near Manson, Iowa, 74 million years ago, creating the U.S.'s largest impact crater and reshaping the ...

A new NASA study of its Apollo lunar soils clarifies the Moon’s record of meteorite impacts and timing of water delivery.

The huge 1,600-mile (2,500-kilometer) wide expanse of the South Pole–Aitken Basin extends considerably onto the far side of ...

Mysterious driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves hints at the legacy of Arizona’s huge impact crater.

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

An effort to kill the Incredible Hulk confirmed precisely how strong Hulk is, while also accidentally ending the human race.

In a new study in Geology, researchers calculated how long it took for novel single-celled marine species to appear after the asteroid impact, and it’s surprisingly fast.