NASA is studying interstellar object 3I/ATLAS to refine its planetary defence systems, using the comet's rare trajectory as a ...

The NASA Deep Impact mission was the first attempt to expose the pristine interior of a comet by intentionally striking its ...

Astronomers have identified 2025 SC79, a new asteroid with a remarkably fast 128-day orbit, placing it among the ...

A collision with a roughly 96-kilometer asteroid would guarantee global extinction, and programs like NASA’s DART test plus ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

Astronomers can usually spot "planet killer" asteroids long before they approach Earth. But what if they can't?

New research on fossils from New Mexico suggests that dinosaurs, including the Alamosaurus, were thriving just before the ...

Edmontosaurus, which munched plants with its broad and flat snout that vaguely resembled a duckbill, roamed western North ...

What really happened around the time when the asteroid smashed into Earth 66 million years ago? Scientists may finally have ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

Though NASA confirms that 3I/ATLAS poses no immediate threat to Earth, its unusual trajectory and behaviour have stirred ...

Though NASA confirms that 3I/ATLAS poses no immediate threat to Earth, its unusual trajectory and behaviour have stirred ...