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

Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid that has captured global attention due to its close approach predicted for the year 2029.

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the moon once had a weak magnetic field generated by a small molten core, the team's research suggests it likely wouldn ...

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 ...

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