Earlier this year, a near-Earth asteroid drew global attention after astronomers revealed it had a non-zero chance of ...

There, geological evidence of eight impact events, which occurred between 3.6 billion and 3.2 billion years ago, can be found in the rocks and traced through tiny meteorite impact particles called ...

A meteor streaks across the sky and burns up in a flash. Sometimes, a small piece survives the journey through Earth’s ...

The fall of the Aguas Zarcas meteorite was no ordinary event. It came from a nearly vertical angle, about 81 degrees steep, ...

The impact could have kicked up rock deep beneath the earth that eventually spread globally as the meteorite strike sent debris flying. The age of the impact is “statistically indistinguishable ...

A new study suggests a massive meteorite impact 3.26 billion years ago, far larger than the dinosaur killer, may have acted ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...

The bit of falling space rock, caught on camera in July ... Meteor Crater in Arizona is considered the best-preserved meteorite impact site, made by an approximately 150-foot-wide meteorite ...

Upheaval Dome in Utah, a rock formation with ridged, concentric circles, continues to spark debate among scientists. Some believe it formed due to a meteorite impact 60 million years ago ...