A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on ...

Scientists have discovered new evidence that it wasn't just one asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...

Detailed images of the 66-million-year-old Nadir Crater offer new insights into catastrophic asteroid impacts, showing ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

An international team of scientists from the UK, USA and Germany has obtained 3D images of an asteroid crater ... kilometer-long Chicxulub crater off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

Crew Dragon ferry ships require calm winds and seas in the Gulf of Mexico or ... the DART impact crater, the moon's internal structure and composition. The goal of the Asteroid Impact and ...

Europe's Hera probe successfully launched Monday on a mission to inspect the damage done by a NASA spacecraft that smashed into an asteroid ... to hit the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Helene ...

SpaceX and the European Space Agency will launch a mission on Monday to an asteroid's moon. NASA tried to knock off its path ...

The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. And, until now, it had been assumed that the asteroid acted alone. This week, scientists at Scotland ...