The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

After 66 million years, scientists discover there wasn’t just one asteroid which killed the dinosaurs - Evidence of a second ...

On a quiet night in, a meteorite sails through your window. How did it get here from space? What would it do to your body?

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.

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

The massive asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs when it slammed into the earth 66 million years ago was joined by a second ...

What happens when humanity flies a probe into an asteroid? Two years after such an impact, the "Hera" mission is supposed to ...

NASA's DART mission deliberately crashed into the Dimorphos asteroid in 2022 as scientists test whether space objects can be ...

The brightest comet visible from Earth since 2006, C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, should be making an appearance around ...

You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the “Circle of Life” song at the ...