Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

On November 19, 2005, the Japanese Hayabusa (HI-uh-BOOS-uh) spacecraft made the first liftoff from an asteroid. Hayabusa was ...

A BUS-SIZED “mini moon” is in the final days of its trip to Earth’s skies – and will soon vanish until 2055. The holidaying ...

The Ordovician Period is known for experiencing a large number of impact events, which previous studies have pinned on the ...

Well, according to NASA, 4.43pm next Monday to be exact The mini-moon is only 3,760,000km from Earth. That certainly might sound like a lot – or at least how far the sofa from the TV remote can feel ...

Performing an analysis using well-accepted atmospheric and geological data, a research team found that the cumulative GHG ...

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span of about 7 feet (2 meters), a bony crest on front of its snout and a ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

A “killer asteroid,” large enough to decimate Baltimore and the surrounding areas, may be heading toward Earth at this very ...

For perspective, at its maximum estimated size of 460 meters, 2023 WK3 dwarfs India’s iconic Qutub Minar, which stands at 73 meters tall. The asteroid is over six times taller than this UNESCO World ...

NASA has raised a red alert for asteroid 2023 WK3, a massive space rock the size of a football stadium. Measuring 850 feet in diameter, it is travelling at an astonishing speed of 52,117 km/h. The ...