Scientists have found that after the asteroid wiped out many plants, ants started farming fungi to help them survive and get ...

The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...

The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...

The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...

A dwarf planet hiding right in the middle of our solar system could be a surprising source of frozen water, astronomers ...

The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. But on the way there, the probe looked back home, ...

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

Ice on ancient asteroids like Ryugu may have been crucial in kickstarting life on Earth. Researchers from Imperial and ...

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...

A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...

The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...