One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

NASA's new observations of the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, led to a 2.3 per cent probability of hitting Earth on 22 December ...

"One advantage of the shallow entry, slow velocity atmospheric path model is that by the time the meteoroid is close to ...

A massive meteor strike on Mars sent shockwaves across the planet, revealing that some of its tremors weren’t tectonic but ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

The far side of the Moon has its own versions of the Grand Canyon—two of them, in fact! A new study explains how these deep ...

NASA and ESA monitor asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Learn about Near-Earth Objects ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

The gigantic cataclysm, which released energy 130 times more powerful than the detonation of the entire world’s atomic ...

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater. Tektites are natural glass formed when debris falls back to Earth after a ...

This can be seen first-hand with sites like the 66-million-year-old Chicxulub crater in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (thought to be the reason for mass dinosaur extinction) and the 50,000-year-old ...

"It is likely around the same size as the 1908 Tunguska rock or the Meteor Crater rock," Rankin said ... The most notable of these is the catastrophic Chicxulub impact, which happened around ...