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

Joël Lapointe was using Google Maps to plan a camping trail through Quebec's Côte-Nord region when he stumbled across a large ...

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 ...

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

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

James Webb Space Telescope imagery of asteroid 2024 YR4 confirmed that it “will safely pass the Moon at a distance of more ...

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

Now, an international team of researchers reports in the journal Science Advances that a short time later, a more than ...

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

A Chinese probe is set for a historic touchdown on asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, which may have been blasted away from Earth’s Moon millions of years ago after a violent impact. Chinas ...