The impact site of the second asteroid is called the Nadir crater, where rock was liquified and a tsunami launched into the ...

On June 30 1908, a significant asteroid impact event in the Tunguska area of Siberia wiped out 80 million trees across 830 ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at ...

Researchers have explored mysterious flow features on airless celestial bodies like Vesta, Ceres, and Europa. In their latest ...

The researchers noted that the crater formed at about the same time as the 180-kilometer-long Chicxulub crater off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Chikhulub was formed after a 10 ...

The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico ... Still, compared to the Mexican “Chicxulub” asteroid, the one responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs, it’s not ...