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

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

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

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

An asteroid, 2025 KX8, will closely approach Earth on June 4, 2025. NASA is monitoring the space rock, which is about 36 ...

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

Scientists are investigating whether an asteroid impact could have triggered Earth’s first great flood, reshaping the planet’s surface billions of years ago. Evidence suggests that a massive space ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of the U.

An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found. The ...

The asteroid will pass at a distance of 6.68 million kilometres from Earth, which is roughly 17 times closer than the ...

Now, a new asteroid is in town. The space rock, called Asteroid 2025 FA22, has been placed at number three on the risk list by the European Space Agency (ESA) for "possible impact" with Earth in the ...

Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft ...