See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

NASA's Lucy mission flyby asteroid Dinkinesh (aka 1999 VD57). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and ...

A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

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A new scientific study reveals that life recovered much faster than expected after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...

If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, we would not only witness the event, but we could also see the aftermath for decades to ...

This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.