Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

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A new scientific study reveals that life recovered much faster than expected after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

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If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

Psyche is often said to be worth around £8,000,000,000,000,000,000 based on estimates of how much metal it may contain. This ...

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

NASA launched a mission to an asteroid a scientist estimated could be worth up a ridiculous amount, but they later made an ...

The findings are a big clue as to why the far and near hemispheres of the moon look so different.