A new study has revealed that our understanding of the South Pole-Aitken basin was quite literally back-to-front, meaning ...

Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

The Draconid meteor shower will peak on Wednesday and produce a few meteors for sky-gazers in the Northern Hemisphere.

World leaders have welcomed Hamas's positive response on Friday to US President Donald Trump's plan to free Israeli hostages in Gaza and end the near two-year war there. After the group issued a ...

In September 2025, an X post (archived) viewed over 1 million times claimed the world's biggest meteorite impact crater was in Mexico and included a video of the purported site. The video and claim ...

Vessel struck by explosive device amid escalating Houthi threats to commercial shipping in Red Sea and Gulf of Aden ...

The North American Aerospace Defense Command once again quickly launched fighter jets to intercept Russian planes after four were spotted over the waters near Alaska. In a statement, NORAD said that ...

In 1992, scientists found the "smoking gun:" the roughly 120-mile-wide (200 kilometers) Chicxulub crater off of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. Then in 2013, a meteor the size of a semitrailer breached ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The destination is part of an extended mission, called Hayabusa 2, following ...

In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of microbial life within a meteorite impact crater—revealing that life not ...

It was the second time in less than a week that a Russian drone had flown through a NATO member’s airspace. Last week, NATO scrambled fighter jets to shoot down Russian drones in Polish airspace. By ...

An impact crater lies in the heart of the village of Yarova in Ukraine's Donetsk region. It's the aftermath of a Russian missile attack on September 9 that left a final death toll of 25. "I am in the ...