A small rock traveling faster than a rifle bullet met the upper atmosphere over the Indian Ocean on September 6, 2026, and ...

Asteroid Bennu, the near-Earth object NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission sampled in 2020, has long been treated by scientists as a ...

At roughly 60 kilometers (around 40 miles) above Earth, the fireball enters Phase 4 and reaches a melting equilibrium. Its ...

An asteroid about 13 kilometres in diameter struck the area of the modern Yucatán Peninsula at a speed of roughly 72,000 kilometres per hour... .

One mystery that still remains is the almost identical compositional makeup of the Earth and the Moon.

A new study reveals how molten rock and fine asteroid dust could have produced an intense global heat pulse after the impact ...

ComingSoon can exclusively reveal the trailer for After Impact. Directed by Michiel Rensen and Liam Carter, the movie is a haunting sci-fi thriller about isolation, endurance, and fragile hope. The ...

Nevertheless, the work represents an important step in evaluating the nuclear option for planetary defence. It demonstrates that a standoff detonation using X-ray radiation can indeed seriously damage ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The object, designated 2026 OE1, is estimated to measure about 180 feet ...

Scientists have spent decades debating what killed the dinosaurs. Some say volcanoes triggered the dinosaurs’ decline a million years before the infamous asteroid hit 66 million years ago. Others say ...

Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid impact wiped out three-quarters of all plant and animal species on Earth, most notably taking down the dinosaurs. But exactly how that impact caused those ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid about the size of Mount Everest smacked into Earth near where the Yucatan Peninsula is today. That impact created the Chicxulub crater ...