How Can We Know If an Asteroid Will Hit Earth? “Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

Meteors can light up the sky in the form of shooting stars, but they often burn up in the atmosphere. Some are able to make ...

NEW YORK — The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and ...

Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest, or possibly even larger, struck Earth with catastrophic ...

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

By Katherine Hafner/WHRO About 35 million years ago, Hampton Roads was underwater, with the coastline dozens of miles west toward Richmond. Dinosaurs were long gone, but the ocean teemed with ...