Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a matter of minutes, ...

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would be in for, hinting at what it'd take for us to survive such a catastrophe.

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that 3.8 billion years ago, an unidentified object struck the Moon ...

Near-Earth asteroids have long been a concern for scientists studying planetary threats. As of September 2024, more than ...

Projectiles flying faster than bullets from a blast 130 times bigger than the global nuclear stockpile helped form giant lunar canyons, according to a new study.

The energy to produce the grand canyons on the Moon is about 130 times larger than the energy in the global inventory of nuclear weapons.

This research helps us understand the violent nature of cosmic collisions and their role in shaping planetary landscapes. By ...

About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon in a span of less than 10 minutes, according to ...

About 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub impact dramatically altered the course of Earth's history. An asteroid around 10 ... massive quantities of dust and debris released into the atmosphere ...

(Picture: Eyes on Asteroids/NASA / SWNS) Today, an asteroid larger than Manhattan ... This apocalyptic object, the Chicxulub impactor, slammed into the sea just off the coast of modern ...