In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

Ariana Church, 9, was on Penarth beach in Wales with her family when she spotted a mysterious rock - which turned out to be a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite ...

Hidden in a shipping container bound for the UK, the massive iron mass turned out to be far more than ornamental.

A nine-year-old on a beach found a meteorite 4.5 billion years old – older than Earth itself. Ariana Church made the ...

Ariana Church made the extraordinary find with her seven-year-old sister, Leyla, mother Hayley, 39, and grandmother Marion, ...

A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

Planetary defence research often sits between modelling and imagination, with few chances to test real materials under realistic conditions. A new stu.

Linda Losurdo, a doctoral student at the University of Sydney, successfully simulated star-like conditions to produce cosmic ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

A lake born from the sky. That’s how Lonar Crater Lake is often described, and once you see it, the phrase makes sense.

A colour-changing lake born from a meteor impact keeps baffling scientists, blending space science, ancient myths, and rare ...

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...