An extraordinary celestial event could unfold in the night sky in less than a decade if an asteroid passing Earth collides ...

As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: ...

Beneath East Antarctica’s thick ice lies the Wilkes Land anomaly — a possible meteorite impact crater over 500 km wide. This mysterious formation may be the largest crater on Earth, with a mascon at ...

Scientists are monitoring a recently discovered asteroid which could potentially hit the Moon - and calculating its likely ...

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes the Earth at a very high ...

Research Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka by a team from the ...

The Moon, unlike Earth, lacks an atmosphere to absorb or deflect impact debris. A direct hit from YR4 could create a crater ...

Initially flagged as a potential Earth threat, asteroid 2024 YR4, a 200-foot space rock, is now predicted to potentially ...

The moon is littered with craters similar to Daedalus, as observed by the Apollo 11 crew on the lunar far side, according to ...