Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and pallasites. Studying meteors provides ...

We may have had a near-miss, but asteroids can pass by the Earth undetected.

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

An ancient impact structure in remote northern Australia was recently spotted by one of NASA's Earth-observing satellite ...

It's official - space is a war-fighting domain. Who says so? The British, the Americans, Nato and, among many other nations, ...

NASA is closely monitoring Asteroid 2014 TN17 due to its size and tremendous speed, as these kinds of space rocks are ...

TN17, a massive space rock the size of the Taj Mahal, is racing towards Earth at 77,282 km/h and is classified as potentially ...

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.