They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

A supernova is a dramatic event in which a star violently explodes towards the end of its life cycle. In a striking image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the supernova explosion of a star ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

In Australia, a team of researchers has identified the oldest meteorite impact crater ever discovered. This site, located in the Pilbara region, dates back 3.5 billion years, pushing the ...

A decade later, researchers identified a 200-kilometer-wide (125-mile-wide) crater off the coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. “It was the enrichment of iridium in Cretaceous/Palaeogene ...