Giant impacts on Earth’s surface can be cataclysmic events with far-reaching consequences. They can excavate massive craters ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

More than 50,000 years ago, a meteor hit Earth and formed what we now call Meteor Crater in northern Arizona. But new ...

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.

A recently discovered crater in China could be the youngest known impact structure on Earth, unveiling new insights into ...

Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

The massive crater is the focus of a week-long discovery event, offering unique tours, stargazing and lectures.

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When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft scooped up samples from asteroid Bennu and brought them back to Earth, scientists expected to find amino acids and clues about how they formed. In other words, the ...

There’s a place in the Sahara so strange, so perfectly circular, that astronauts use it as a landmark when they’re orbiting Earth. Imagine floating hundreds of miles above our planet and spotting a ...

Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere. If they’re big enough, they can prove incredibly destructive, like the 60-foot Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over ...

New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...