Scientists have unveiled the Nadir crater, a 5-mile wide undersea structure off the coast of West Africa, believed to have ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

The ice caps have melted. Continents have been reduced to a handful of islands. Survivors seek to rebuild what is known as ...

The Moon was struck by two asteroids last week, and the activity was caught on camera by a Japanese astronomer. The impact has likely gouged craters several feet wide. There were massive bursts of ...

A massive crater has been detected beneath the Atlantic, which was the result of the impact caused by a 66-million-year-old ...

Space.com, which first reported the images, notes that this kind of Halloween-themed coincidence isn't new. The Sun has shown similar expressions before: a "smile" captured in 2022 and a ...

Another asteroid zoomed near Earth's vicinity the next day. An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, according to space agencies. The space object, named 2025 TF, zoomed over ...

A newly discovered asteroid just whizzed past Earth, marking the second-closest asteroid flyby on record, astronomers say. The asteroid flew over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 30, about ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

When a space rock the size of a football field heads in our direction, even slim odds are enough to make scientists sit up and pay attention. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is not expected to hit Earth, but it ...

In a plan ripped straight from the script of the 1998 movie "Armageddon," scientists have suggested a simple, if violent, method of dealing with a troublesome asteroid. Just nuke it. But in this case, ...