A spectacular and destructive event will take place this week when the upper stage of a rocket will impact on the lunar surface.
A pervasive phenomenon reported all across the world has impacted millions of people at one time or another.
Researchers now suggest that the 14th-century religious epic may have had a much different underlying meaning.
An asteroid that once posed a risk to the Earth may now be headed straight for the Moon instead.
Dams constructed around the world over the last two centuries have had an impact on the planet's poles.
Local farmers and businesses have been badly impacted by the appearance of the insect swarm.
Millions of years ago, our solar system stood in the path of a veritable tsunami of gas and dust.
In recent weeks there had been concerns that a 200ft asteroid had a relatively high chance of striking the Earth.
The space rock has a higher probability of an impact than any other asteroid we've seen in recent years.
In an unexpected discovery, it turns out that lockdown actually had a measurable impact on the lunar surface.
Geoscientist Elizaveta Kovaleva explains how she and her colleagues unraveled the mystery of the yellow desert glass.
New excavations in Jordan have revealed evidence to suggest that the city of Sodom was destroyed by an asteroid impact.
One man's childhood encounter with a mysterious hairy hominid left an impact that would last for almost 50 years.
A reassuring new study has found that we may be safe from extinction asteroid impacts... at least for the time being.
A near-death experience would seem to be a life-changing event, but it turns out that this is not generally the case.
The space rock passed us by at a distance of 2,200 miles - a fraction of the distance at which some satellites orbit the Earth.
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was enormous - but it was by no means the largest ever to hit our planet.
The space agency reportedly enlisted religious experts to help predict how the world would react.
A very unusual art experiment in the Italian village of Fontecchio is turning its residents into alien hybrids.
A new study has revealed that ghostly tales and scary stories have little impact on those with mind-blindness.