"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Meteors: When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, the ...

Previously, the Vredefort Dome had been the only dated impact structure. The 2 billion-year-old crater can be found in South ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

The flight was scrubbed on Wednesday night, and the astronauts will return to the launchpad for their trip to the ...

This weekend sees a big “first” for two media superstars that have been in the pop culture “zeitgeist” for ninety years! Well, that’s one of them because his ...

Scientific experts have been looking into whether the Earth’s first continent was formed by meteor strikes for some time. Some craters are tourist sites, but not all of them are understood ...

A radar site on February 21 detected several objects flying through the Earth’s atmosphere at a very high rate of speed and ...

You can see the lunar eclipse beginning around 11 P.M., but to see the peak of the eclipse you’ll have to be watching the skies around 2 A.M.