NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office is responsible for finding and tracking potentially dangerous asteroids before ...

When NASA’s Artemis astronauts touch down near the moon’s south pole in the coming years, they may step into one of the ...

At 900 meters, the giant crater in southern China is three times larger than the previous Holocene recorder holder.

A vast scar from a cosmic collision has been sitting in southern China, hiding in the landscape so effectively that people ...

With the Crater concept SUV, Hyundai shifts XRT from a tough-looking trim level toward real-deal off-roading. Could it rival ...

After an asteroid struck Finland long ago, microscopic life colonized the impact site within a few million years, new research reveals. This article was originally published at Eos. The publication ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

The Taurid meteor shower—known for its “Halloween Fireballs” that illuminate the sky from late October to early November— could hold clues to future threats from space such as airbursts and actual ...