Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...

On Friday, April 13, 2029, an asteroid will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a ...

While asteroid mining is already being undertaken, the first mission didn't exactly go off without a hitch. Here's what ...

The James Webb Space Telescope turned the 2024 YR4 asteroid in the smallest target it ever observed, was able to accurately ...

A new study found dinosaurs were thriving on Earth before asteroid hit, challenging idea they were already in decline before ...

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped ... "Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic [252 million to 66 million ...

The study, published in Current Biology, analysed the fossil record of North America in the 18 million years up to the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period (between 66 and 84 ...

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less ...

A new study suggests that dinosaurs likely weren't in decline before an asteroid wiped them out 66 million years ago; instead, there may just be limited fossils from that time period, challenging ...

“Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic,” Chiarenza said. “If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with ...