This Sunday, an asteroid larger than Manhattan – large enough it could end civilization, or at least wreck a country – is ...

A massive asteroid larger than Manhattan is set to make its closest approach to Earth in a century this Sunday - which is ...

Earth is constantly bombarded by space debris, from the tons of cosmic dust that lands on the planet daily to rare, huge, dinosaur-killing asteroids that arrive from deep space every tens of millions ...

Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham found the huge expanse of quarry floor filled with hundreds of ...

STUNNED experts have uncovered the UK’s biggest “dinosaur highway” with hundreds of massive footprints dating back 166million ...

Fungus-farming ants, fossilized footprints and a prehistoric critter named after a Muppet are just a few of the year’s most ...

This massive space rock has a potential destructive force of 12 million tonnes of TNT. Huge space rock 2024 XN1, which is also dubbed as the 'Christmas Eve asteroid' and is the size of an ...

Yet, even for a relatively small asteroid the consequences of a potential impact would be devastating. NASA's research suggests that an asteroid of 70m in diameter is capable of flattening an area ...

The asteroid will pass closer to the Earth than most others, but luckily will not impact - news that should bring some festive joy to everyone. So instead of it being just a Merry Christmas ...

The lander is targeting Mare Crisium, the site of an ancient asteroid impact site once filled with basaltic lava. The basalts in Mare Crisium are between 2.5 to 3.3 billion years old, according to ...

Get ready for a close call as asteroid 2024 XS3, a massive 84-foot space rock, is heading straight for Earth tomorrow. But don’t panic – NASA assures us there is absolutely no risk of collision. This ...