Ancient rocks found by NASA's Perseverance rover reveal Mars was repeatedly impacted by asteroids billions of years ago.

NASA has discovered a new asteroid, 2024 YR4, which has the highest impact probability on record, with a 1 in 25,000 chance of hitting Earth and a 1.7% chance of impacting the Moon as of February 24, ...

A shattered asteroid may have unleashed a long-lasting cosmic barrage that left scars across the inner solar system and ...

A Chinese probe is set for a historic touchdown on asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, which may have been blasted away from Earth’s Moon millions of years ago after a violent impact. China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft ...

China is developing an ambitious planetary defense strategy to protect Earth. The mission utilises a powerful Long March 5 ...

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million ...

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on Tuesday that China will establish a coordinated ground- and space-based monitoring system for near-Earth asteroids to provide early warning ...

Between 2000 and 2013, 26 asteroids packing at least the energy of 1 kilotonne of TNT hit Earth or exploded in its atmosphere. That’s up to 10 times as many as you would expect from existing models of ...

As the United States of America celebrated its 250th birthday on terra firma with fireworks displays this weekend, two Asian countries made some splashes of their own farther from Earth. On Sunday, an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AccuWeather.com On June 30, 1908, an asteroid tore across the sky above a remote part of Siberia before erupting in a cataclysmic ...

Curtin University researchers use innovative techniques to date three-billion-year-old impact crater in Western Australia’s Pilbara region ...