Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the ...

The rare interstellar comet, also known as 3I/ATLAS, was first discovered in July and has been photographed several times.

Yes, absolutely! When asteroids or comets hit rocky bodies such as the moon or Mars, they form impact craters that displace a large volume of material from the surface. Some of this material can be ...