An ancient impact may have scattered material from deep inside the moon toward NASA's planned Artemis landing sites near the ...

Rubin Observatory in the mountains of the Atacama Desert in Chile. Originally imagined in the mid-1990s as the Dark Matter ...

Nuclear war is much more unpredictable than asteroids, but, unlike the dinosaurs of 66 million years ago, humans can avoid ...

Roughly 73 million years ago, on a strip of Pacific coastline that would eventually become Baja California, a mammal no bigger than a hamster climbed through the branches of Cretaceous forests and ...

A large asteroid about the size of the Eiffel Tower is expected to come unusually close to Earth in 2029, but there is no risk of impact, scientists said. The asteroid, named Apophis, will pass around ...

NASA has been tracking a bus-sized asteroid that is zipping past Earth on Friday at a whopping 45,522 mph. Known as 2026 KC1, ...

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...

Dante's description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks of an impact, forming a ...