Space-based experiments show fungi can efficiently extract valuable metals from meteorites in microgravity, advancing prospects for asteroid biomining and sustainable resource use. As humans look ...

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

"TNA Impact" remained consistent in the TV ratings on February 26 as the show averaged the same viewership for the second week in a row.

While aliens in science fiction hop between planets on vast spaceships, scientists say real-life extraterrestrials might take a far less glamorous means of transport.

Giant impacts on Earth’s surface can be cataclysmic events with far-reaching consequences. They can excavate massive craters ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...

Brazilian scientists have discovered glassy fragments, known as tektites, revealing evidence of a massive extraterrestrial impact event that occurred 6.3 million years ago.

Scientists in Brazil have uncovered evidence of a previously unknown impact event recorded in hundreds of glassy fragments ...

He might have been King of the Dinosaurs, but T.Rex likely ran on his tip–toes, according to a new study. Since the release ...

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.