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 ...

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...

The Bosumtwi impact crater, nestled in Ghana’s mineral-rich Ashanti gold belt, stands as one of Earth’s most well-preserved meteorite impact sites. As highlighted by a recent study published in ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Not big enough to be a threat to Earth, asteroid 2022 EB5 hit Earth off the coast of Iceland on March 11, two hours after it was first seen. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest ...

The 1-meter asteroid was discovered just hours before it hit Earth's atmosphere and almost 10 years to the day that an asteroid about 20 times bigger hit Chelyabinsk, Russia.

Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth ...

Earth and the moon were bombarded by an asteroid shower 800 million years ago larger than the asteroid responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, according to a new study. It may have ...

Giant meteorite that hit Earth 3 billion years ago may have helped life thrive: Study Harvard researchers found that when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet 3 billion years ago ...

A recently discovered asteroid has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space rock.