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 ...

A NASA animation has sized the biggest black holes known to scientists, including one that has the mass of 66 billion Suns.

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 ...

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases ...

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

Why are so many people anxious about Friday the 13th? Some people think the origin is tied to The Last Supper in Christianity, when Jesus Christ reportedly dined with 12 apostles, totaling 13 at the ...

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Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed to 3.1 percent. This was the highest probability of a strike by an object of ...

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

Northants Steelbacks have re-signed Australian batter Chris Lynn for this summer's T20 Blast as a replacement for Matthew Breetzke. Lynn scored 880 runs in two previous spells at Wantage Road in 2022 ...