One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

Right here on Earth are some outstanding examples of meteorite and asteroid impact craters and other visible impact ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

It's official: The Gulf of Mexico is no more (at least in the United States). Employees at the federal Board on Geographic Names have formally changed the name to the Gulf of America per one of ...

President Trump officially declared Sunday “Gulf of America Day” in celebration of his recent executive order to rename the body of water — signing the proclamation while flying over it en ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance ... It would also leave a large crater and eject debris upward. Ecosystems would spend years reckoning with ...

In January, President-elect Donald Trump announced his plans to rename the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America.” Alabama is one of several states that has shoreline on the coast.

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

The announcement came on Sunday, Feb. 9. On his Inauguration Day Jan. 20, Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Google Maps posted on X it ...

It's official: The Gulf of Mexico is no more (at least in the United States, anyway). Workers at the federal Board on Geographic Names have formally changed the name to the Gulf of America per one ...