While scientists are revising the timeline at Australia's North Pole Dome, it's still our oldest known crater.

That asteroid explosion over Tunguska was 1,000 times stronger than the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

Earth and the Moon both record evidence of a 'lost' period of bombardment. (NASA) Tiny crystal grains trapped inside a meteorite may be the key that unlocks a hidden era in the Solar System's history ...

On June 30, 1908, an asteroid tore across the sky above a remote part of Siberia before erupting in a cataclysmic explosion.

International Asteroid Day highlights global efforts to detect, track and deflect potentially hazardous asteroids while ...

Scientists have identified the Bennu asteroid threat as the highest single-date impact probability for any known asteroid.

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

An asteroid that may be as wide as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is tall will fly safely by Earth on Thursday, June 5, 2025. Bigger than 97% of asteroids, for such a large object to come ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago The Chicxulub impactor At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million ...

Earth’s oldest asteroid impact crater may just have been found - Researchers date North Pole Dome in Australia’s Pilbara region to over 3 billion years ago ...

An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes Around 35 million years ago, a small asteroid ...

Scientists have created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, revealing further the events that led to the devastating mass ...