Scientists have calculated that the moon could harbour precious metals worth an estimated £738billion, following billions of ...

The Saskatchewan government has declared a provincewide state of emergency, as wildfires raging in the north force thousands to flee their homes. The state of emergency will be in effect for 30 days, ...

A total solar eclipse was captured from a NASA Gulfstream III aircraft flying 25,000 feet above Oregon’s coast. The eclipse, where the Moon passed in front of the Sun, cast its shadow across a narrow ...

Using computer simulations, the researchers uncovered a scenario in which an ancient asteroid impact briefly amplified that field, just long enough for nearby rocks to capture and record its magnetic ...

The mountain-size asteroid struck South America and left a crater off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, which measured 93 miles wide and 12 miles deep. Scientists believe it created ...

THE world's oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback. The ancient hole, near the town of Marble Bar, north-west Australia ...

Now, scientists warn a space rock, named asteroid 2024 YR4, could smash into the lunar surface and leave a new crater on the near side of the Moon. NASA announced it will be using its most ...

If the asteroid is made of iron it could punch through the atmosphere and make a crater when it hits the Earth, or trigger tsunamis with an ocean strike. 2024 YR4 was spotted in December using the ...

An astronomer says a large asteroid currently heading towards the ... the total country is gone. There would be a crater, the middle of Ireland would be devastated by earthquakes, or if it hit ...

A vast impact crater near the moon’s south pole was formed by an asteroid moving at more than ... Mark Burchell at the University of Kent, UK, says the research goes some way to prove that ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...

known as the Nadir asteroid, which crashed into the sea off the coast of West Africa creating a large crater during the same era. The crater was first discovered in 2022 and would have been a ...