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

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that may be visible to the naked eye, a new study finds.

An asteroid the size of a building has a small chance of hitting the moon in 2032, and it could shake lunar science to its ...

When the Chicxulub impactor hit, the animals that had the best chance of surviving turned out to be those with wings. See how new finds are reshaping the story of how birds evolved.

Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact, Homo sapiens might still face extinction, because the social networks ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

Scientists already knew this could be a doozy. Astronomers previously estimated if 2024 YR4 hits the moon, it could form a ...

Aniara is such a bottomless pit of gloom that it, and it alone, deserves the title of bleakest space movie of all time. Based ...

Fireballs are bright meteors and can be yellow, blue, red, green and sometimes violet. Fast-moving meteors are frequently ...

A bus-size asteroid is racing through space on a trajectory that will bring it close to Earth, and NASA is watching it with ...

Open land stretches toward the water in Patagonia, Chile. The house faces a wide and empty landscape. The view suggests ...

One of the brightest stars in the night sky will vanish as seen from North America and Europe in a rare event.