It is likely to trigger damage like the Chelyabinsk object that injured 1,500 people in Russia.

Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...

Just before 9 a.m. EDT on March 17, a meteor entered the atmosphere over Lake Erie and caused a sonic boom recorded on video ...

Sloths are the slowest mammals of all, but asteroid 2026 HX3 is anything but that – both in terms of being slow and in terms ...

The event that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't all bad. The low-light environment caused by the meteor impact some 66 million years ago favored the spread of fungi that feed on organic matter, which ...

Representative examples of 2D XRD images and microscopic images for selected enstatite grains in enstatite chondrites in the research. Enstatite chondrites (ECs) formed under extreme reducing ...

How did meteorite impacts on the Moon influence water being delivered to Earth when both planetary bodies were forming? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Brazil is host to a newly found field of natural glass created from meteorite impacts, according to a new study. The natural glass is known as a tektite, which occurs after terrestrial rocks are ...

Observers watching January's total eclipse of the Moon saw a rare event, a short-lived flash as a meteorite hit the lunar surface. Spanish astronomers now think the space rock collided with the Moon ...