NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced it remotely updated the software of the Hera spacecraft currently en-route to 65803 ...

Scientists in China say a nuclear explosion could be the most effective way to stop a large asteroid—and they may have ...

An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes Around 35 million years ago, a small asteroid ...

A massive asteroid slammed into the North Sea floor roughly 43 million years ago, carving out the Silverpit Crater and ...

While scientists are revising the timeline at Australia's North Pole Dome, it's still our oldest known crater.

Long before oceans teemed with life, Earth endured relentless violence. Asteroids slammed into its surface again and again, reshaping the young planet. These impacts once seemed purely destructive.

China is developing a space-ground integrated monitoring network for planetary defence. This system will combine ground ...

Earth and the Moon both record evidence of a 'lost' period of bombardment. (NASA) Tiny crystal grains trapped inside a meteorite may be the key that unlocks a hidden era in the Solar System's history ...

Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision created a vast underground ecosystem filled with hot water that sheltered m ...

On June 30, 1908, an asteroid tore across the sky above a remote part of Siberia before erupting in a cataclysmic explosion.