NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, has produced a result that goes well beyond what the mission ...

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

Arizona's Meteor Crater remains 'the perfect natural laboratory' for studying what happens when meteors strike Earth, scientists say.

A cosmic collision off the Yorkshire coast triggered a mega-tsunami taller than Big Ben that swept across the prehistoric North Sea - and scientists have finally confirmed it. Following two decades of ...

A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

In 2022, NASA hit Dimorphos with a spacecraft. But looking back through the data, astronomers believe they have found evidence of an impact event prior to the big test.

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.

The asteroid struck off the coast of England more than 43 million years ago ...

Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...