The Silverpit crater mystery in the North Sea appears to have been solved. Scientists say it was formed by an asteroid 43 ...

Astronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history", which will take place in 2032, with a little luck. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was ...

Picture a space rock the size of a football pitch crashing into the North Sea's shallow seabed 43 to 46 million years ago.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's illustration depicts a typical asteroid in our solar system. - ESA The possibility that a huge space rock — once ...

While dinosaurs stood no chance when a massive asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, microscopic plankton bounced back surprisingly fast. The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event devastated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have now completely ruled out any impact risk from asteroid 2024 YR4, both for ...

The chances of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025, after astronomers discovered a building-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first detected by ...

Webb telescope data shows a once-risky asteroid will safely pass Earth and the Moon in 2032, removing all impact concerns.

Boulder, Colo., USA: Sixty-six million years ago, the dinosaurs had a really bad day when a colossal asteroid impact spurred their extinction. But even though those reptilian megafauna get all the ...

An artist's illustration depicts a typical asteroid in our solar system. - ESA The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears ...