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

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

Scientists found a previously hidden massive asteroid crater in the Atlantic Ocean. Did two asteroids wipe out the dinosaurs?

The European Space Agency is preparing to launch its first planetary defense mission:: File:: 'Hera' will assess a small moon ...

Exactly 150 years ago, scientists first discovered that leaf-cutter ants were cultivating gardens of fungi inside their nests ...

Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.

The 5.3-mile-wide crater is now confirmed to be 66 million years old, suggesting that the impact of at least two giant space ...

Meteorologist Darius Mack investigates Earth's temporary second Moon arriving in late September. Will you be able to see it?

An oddly shaped — and "potentially hazardous — asteroid the size of a skyscraper sure looks like an oversized peanut.

We've learned more about the composition of asteroids in the last few years than in the prior few decades. Missions like ...

Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, ...

And now scientists have figured out where this dinosaur-killing rock likely came from. According to research headed by Mario ...