In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

BIG wins the competition to renovate public spaces  in Ørestad, around the largest concert area in the Nordic region, ...

Asteroid Day reminds us of space rocks' power. Some asteroids hit Earth hard. One exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring many. The Tunguska event ...

On that fateful day, an asteroid detonated above the remote Siberian wilderness in Russia, unleashing a force equivalent to 185 atomic bombs dropped on Japan's Hiroshima. The blast leveled ...

The Chicxulub Crater in Mexico, one of the most significant craters, is known for its association with the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

The Chicxulub crater, located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological sites on Earth. It marks the catastrophic impact of a massive asteroid or ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But ...

One of the most famous of these 200 or so impact craters is the 200 km-diameter Chicxulub impact crater in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

It’s very rare that planetary geologists can tell whether it was an asteroid or comet that hit. One of the most famous of these 200 or so impact craters is the 200 km diameter Chicxulub impact crater ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at ...