The asteroid is named 2025 OW and measures approximately 210 feet in length, according to NASA. It is set to pass Earth on ...

Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

New research links the impact at Meteor Crater to a Grand Canyon landslide that may have created an ancient lake 56,000 years ...

Planetary scientists have published a detailed follow-up on the debris from their historic 2022 asteroid impact experiment in outer space.

"NASA has significantly lowered the risk of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 as an impact threat to Earth for the foreseeable future," the space agency said in an update on Feb. 24.

From a geological time perspective, kilometer-sized celestial bodies collide with the Earth on a regular basis. About 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid stretching over 10 kilometers in ...

Ancient meteor impacts not only affected Earth's past, but their footprints continue to affect the world today. These past events also shed light on the possible impact of future strikes.

The effects of an asteroid impact during these chilly periods, they added, may have pushed the Earth over a climate tipping point and into a global glaciation. File photo of sea ice.

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view,” the ...