See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

Mercury may have gotten much of its polar ice within a single Mercurian day following a massive asteroid impact, a new study ...

An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the ...

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury hosts water ice at its poles. Now scientists may know how it got there.

One team of researchers found that any individual is more likely to die from an asteroid impact than from a lightning strike.

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

Illustration of an asteroid the passing the Moon as it approaches Earth. Near-Earth asteroids are a constant threat to our planet. In the pantheon of apocalyptic science fiction stories, the ...

About 66 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth in a very different environment than we see today, with some creatures ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, findings that could help divert a future incoming ...

Dante’s vision of Hell may echo the physics of a massive asteroid strike, offering a new way to read the Inferno.