A violent collision in the main asteroid belt may have sent debris raining across the inner solar system about 800 million years ago. The event could explain a long-debated spike in lunar impacts and ...

Shock metamorphic effects' were visible at Uhackatik, a feature suspected to be a crater. Now scientists are looking at its ...

China plans to smash spacecraft onto asteroid in major test to protect Earth - Scientists say the test will help create the ...

Researchers identified the Chicxulub impactor as an exceptionally rare type of asteroid that wouldn't have triggered a mass ...

Scientists confirmed the astronomer’s suspicions with an expedition to the site in Quebec. The discovery offers a rare case ...

A shattered asteroid may have unleashed a long-lasting cosmic barrage that left scars across the inner solar system and ...

Asteroid bombardment Earth 800 million years ago: a new peer-reviewed study in The Planetary Science Journal links the ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and ...

Earth was completely frozen, possibly due to asteroid impacts. Now there is a clue as to where they came from.

The spacecraft will strike its target at around 9 kilometres per second, making it one of the fastest asteroid impact missions ever attempted. The mission, led by the China Nation ...

China is studying an on-orbit kinetic impact test mission for planetary defense that would target a small near-Earth asteroid ...

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million ...