New research shows that ants have been farming fungi for 66 million years — thanks in part to the asteroid that fueled the ...

A team of engineers and planetary scientists at Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, in Canada, ...

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published today by ...

Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by NASA’s DART mission in 2022 ...

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...

A 17-foot asteroid, roughly the size of an airplane, will approach Earth on October 4. Named 2024 TF, it will pass by at a ...

A new study reveals a second asteroid impact, near the time of the dinosaurs` demise, off the coast of Guinea.

The crater lies deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean and was formed around 66 million years ago – making it a contemporary of ...

Scientists discover how ants took advantage of asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs - The asteroid created ideal conditions ...