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On May 29-30, USGS Astrogeology hosted scientists and experts from multiple US Government agencies to share ideas and advancements in the field of asteroid...

A week or two after a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid, scientists have spotted something unexpected: the space rock has grown two tails.

A new study has revealed why there is an imbalance in the number of craters on the nearside and far side of the moon.

Next week, the European Space Agency will live-tweet an exercise where volunteers play out how a hypothetical asteroid impact might unfold.

Space scientists have discovered extra-terrestrial particles which point to a medium-sized asteroid impact in Antarctica 430,000 years ago.

Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere after the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid, which ended the era of dinosaurs some 65 million years ago, warmed the...

Apophis asteroid's 2029 flyby could reshape its surface due to Earth's gravity.

A colossal impact with a large asteroid early in Mars' history may have ripped off a chunk of the northern hemisphere and left behind a legacy of metallic...

(Re)shaping the world as we know it

A NASA scientist, working on the data gathered through the extensive tracking of the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Apophis, has concluded that the 400-meter

The Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs likely released far more climate-altering sulfur gas into the atmosphere than originally thought,...