Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

A newly discovered 165-foot-deep crater in Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula highlights the increasing risks of Arctic methane explosions linked to thawing permafrost. These events release potent methane gas, ...

Asteroid Day reminds us of space rocks' power. Some asteroids hit Earth hard. One exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring ...

In the remote Siberian tundra, the Batagay Crater continues to expand as the world’s largest permafrost slump, while Nicaragua’s extremely active “ Masaya’s Hell ” caldera has spent ...

NASA images reveal shallow ice beneath Mars’s surface, offering a promising water source for future astronauts and clues to ...

The United Nations formally adopted Asteroid Day in 2016. The decision followed a proposal from the Association of Space ...

On the frozen frontline in the east of Zaporizhzhia, a Ukrainian soldier surveyed the fallout from a Russian assault. It was ...

The designation is already used in other parts of the world to raise awareness for space science and planetary defense.

Asteroids, often overlooked, hold vital clues about our solar system's formation and potential future. Missions like ...

In a world obsessed with the apocalyptic hellfire of ‘carbon’ and the terror of an imperceptibly warmer climate nowhere near ...

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on June 30. Check what happened ...

On that fateful day, an asteroid detonated above the remote Siberian wilderness in Russia, unleashing a force equivalent to 185 atomic bombs dropped on Japan's Hiroshima. The blast leveled ...