One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts notes while counterintuitive, the odds of impact go up before they drop to zero.

NASA's new observations of the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, led to a 2.3 per cent probability of hitting Earth on 22 December ...

Mark Witton, 2025. The Chicxulub impactor smashed into Earth, wiped out around 75 percent of our planet’s animals and ended ...

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Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying ...

Around 66 million years ago, a marine creature from the Cretaceous era munched on some sea lilies and developed an […] ...

One of those is asteroid Bennu, the recent lucky target of an asteroid sample collection mission. In a mere 157 years – September of 2182 CE, to be precise – it has a chance of colliding with Earth.

A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...