Eulalia asteroid bombardment: a new study identifies the Eulalia asteroid family as the source of a third wave of impacts ...

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

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

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago likely belonged to a rare class. The extinction occurred ...

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

Scientists trace the dinosaur-killing asteroid to a rare meteorite, shedding new light on Earth's biggest extinction event.

The origin of a 390-million-year-old crater from a meteorite, initially discovered on Google Maps, has been confirmed in the ...

Amateur astronomer Joël Lapointe stumbled upon what he thought looked like a suspicious pit in Quebec's Côte-Nord region ...

The international team reached the conclusion after analysing nickel isotopes preserved in a thin layer of clay left behind ...

These meteor showers occur around the same time every year, with their peaks taking place over four days at the end of July ...

Astronomers have a plan to observe an errant piece of a SpaceX rocket as it hits the moon to better understand impact events ...