Among the millions of rocks tumbling through the inner solar system, one small carbon-rich asteroid gets more attention from planetary defense scientists than almost any other. Bennu, a roughly ...

An asteroid only about 80 centimetres wide was detected in space just hours before it entered Earth’s atmosphere, giving scientists a rare opportunity to track a natural impact event in real time. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Asteroid impacts may have shaped early Earth into a network of hydrothermal systems that supported life's beginnings. (CREDIT: ...

Scientists are narrowing down the type of space rock that caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The North Dome rocks document the only known asteroid impact from the Archeon Era. In 2025, paleogeologists announced the ...

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...

NASA's so-called "doomsday asteroid" Apophis - named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos - is set to pass Earth closer than some satellites.

Astronomers successfully detected and tracked asteroid 2026 RW1 before it harmlessly burned up over the Indian Ocean, marking a significant achievement in planetary defence and early-warning systems.

Can life transport between planets from impacts? This is what a recent study published in PNAS Nexus hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how microbes could have come to Earth via ...

The first few billion years of Earth's history saw the rise of life, the atmosphere and the oceans. Still, that time is shrouded in mystery: Not many rocks remain that preserve a record of those early ...

One asteroid impact may have carved Deimos, buried its surface in debris, and reshaped the entire Martian moon. An ...

Asteroid 2022 RD2 is a near-Earth object that could become a temporary moon, then later a potential crash risk for the planet later this century. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration Scientists ...