Curtin University researchers have determined the most precise age yet for the oldest known impact crater on Earth, providing ...

When we think of planet killer asteroids, survival odds might seem slim. But we aren't defenseless.

Earth’s oldest asteroid impact crater may just have been found - Researchers date North Pole Dome in Australia’s Pilbara ...

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

Long before oceans teemed with life, Earth endured relentless violence. Asteroids slammed into its surface again and again, ...

Ancient asteroid impacts may have done more than reshape Earth's surface—they could have helped spark life itself. New computer models show the collisions created enormous underground hydrothermal ...

Our solar system is a celestial shooting gallery, chock-full of flying projectiles that one day could threaten Earth—so what ...

New research led by Curtin University and QUT (Queensland University of Technology) has revealed that repeated asteroid ...

A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its ...

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on Tuesday that China will establish a coordinated ground- and space ...

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

James Webb Space Telescope imagery of asteroid 2024 YR4 confirmed that it “will safely pass the Moon at a distance of more ...