It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

Scientists believe a crater found in the Australian outback may be the oldest-known meteor crash site in the world. As AFP ...

What are some of the largest extraterrestrial impacts to effect Earth? Learn what we've seen in history, and what is important to know today.

Hike to the top of the Koppie and see how the massive Vredefort meteorite struck near Parys two billion years ago and tilted the Koppies’ quartzite ridges 30 degrees to the south. Melville ...

Hike to the top of the Koppie and see how the massive Vredefort meteorite struck near Parys two billion years ago and tilted the Koppies’ quartzite ridges 30 degrees to the south. Melville ...

Researchers have been trying to explain its existence since the 1960s, and the most recent evidence suggests it was born from a cataclysmic meteorite impact. The crater was first detected as a ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site ...

Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth, ending the reign of the dinosaurs. For nearly three decades, scientists have debated whether dinosaur species were actually ...

In the field of space exploration and asteroid monitoring, some discoveries raise more eyebrows than others– and asteroid 2024 YR4 is one of them. When it was first detected, astronomers feared ...

Based on observations with one of the two Gemini observatories, a US research team has created a three-dimensional representation of the near-Earth asteroid ... that of the crater that forms.