Hidden beneath the East Coast of the United States lies the Chesapeake Bay impact crater, a colossal structure formed 35 ...

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

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

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 ...

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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 ...