New research shows that ants have been farming fungi for 66 million years — thanks in part to the asteroid that fueled the ...

Scientists think that a second asteroid crashed into the Earth at the same time that a meteor was condemning the dinosaurs to extinction.

Earth acquired a temporary mini moon, 2024 PT5, detected by astronomers. NASA will monitor its path, as it orbits for nearly two months before departing in late November, with a potential return in ...

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...

Bacteria grown from carbon compounds in asteroids could be turned into a kind of nutritionally balanced milkshake ...

Researchers have imaged a hidden scar, which is the evidence of a cataclysmic event that impacted Earth millions of years ago ...

A second moon has officially entered Earth’s orbit — sort of. Although it’s being called a “mini-moon,” the object is ...

The Hera mission will explore an asteroid deflection test. It also gives startups a chance to refine their technologies.

The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by NASA’s DART mission in 2022 ...

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

The crater lies deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean and was formed around 66 million years ago – making it a contemporary of ...

Researchers at Heriot-Watt University have unveiled stunning new images of a massive asteroid impact crater hidden beneath ...