Researchers in Western Australia believe an asteroid struck the Pilbara region 3.57 billion years ago, making it the oldest ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

The extra column this month was spurred by the global news of the probability of an impact by asteroid 2024 YR4 in 2032 ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found large crystals of quartz with a high purity on Mars, which probably had to have formed in the ...

Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom to paralyse them before mating and avoid being eaten after sex.

“On Earth, this early impact record has seemingly been lost, reflecting the destructive efficiency of erosion and subduction ...

Technology designed in Dublin will assist a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft called Hera as it navigates a close fly-by ...