The Moon's surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometers across ...

The Northern Lights or aurora borealis may be visible in the U.S. this week due to a coronal hole and a "co-rotating ...

NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is expected to zoom past the Earth today at a speed of around 19,193 miles per hour.

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Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles ...

Did the chemical components necessary to create water on Earth come from space or already exist here? One prevailing notion holds that asteroids containing either water of its building blocks ...

Millions of people could die. Fortunately for all 8 billion of us, planetary defense—the science of preventing asteroid impacts—is a highly active field of research. Astronomers are watching ...

Millions of people could die. Fortunately for all 8 billion of us, planetary defense—the science of preventing asteroid impacts—is a highly active field of research. We already know that at ...

About 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, along with around 70% of all life in the oceans. The impact left behind a massive crater under what is now ...

A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences examined thousands of fossils. They found fewer accessible rocks from ...