Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

The post Microbes Learned To Thrive In An Ancient Meteor Impact Crater And Mineral Formations Were The End Result first on TwistedSifter. Just under million years ago, an asteroid hit western Finland, ...

Asteroid impacts with global consequences are vastly rarer, especially compared to the frequency with which they appear in ...

A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and reshaped the Colorado River that runs through the national park. Geologists studying driftwood and lake ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

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 ...

In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% ...