A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...
A second moon has officially entered Earth’s orbit — sort of. Although it’s being called a “mini-moon,” the object is ...
The massive asteroid that ended the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not an isolated event, new research has revealed.
In a scene that sounds straight out of science fiction, the spacecraft deliberately crashed into the pyramid-sized asteroid ...
The crater left from the second asteroid's impact has been dubbed the Nadir crater, and it was first discovered in 2022.
Earth now officially has two moons after its gravity caught an asteroid. Our planet captured asteroid 2024 PT5 on Sunday, ...
One prominent voice challenging reports on Earth's "second moon" or "mini-moon" is the host of the recent iteration of ...
New research shows that ants have been farming fungi for 66 million years — thanks in part to the asteroid that fueled the ...
Bacteria grown from carbon compounds in asteroids could be turned into a kind of nutritionally balanced milkshake ...
Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...