Fireballs occur when meteors are over 3 feet in size, making the flames much brighter and more visible from Earth. Meteor ...

A new study suggests that Earth might have had a ring system around 466 million years ago, potentially formed during a period of unusually intense meteorite impacts known as the Ordovician impact spik ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

While the Southern Taurids are active between Sept. 23 and Dec. 8, the celestial light show will be most visible Monday and ...

"Picture yourself standing off the coast of Cape Cod, in a shelf of shallow water," said Nadja Drabon, an early Earth ...

Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before ...

The Southern Taurid meteor shower is set to peak Monday night into Tuesday with a chance for sky-gazers to spot fireballs.

D: Iron in the ocean (from the ocean circulation, from the impactor itself, and from erosion), along with nutrients (like ...

How did Earth's last mass extinction unfold? Explore what led to it, what was lost, and how life ultimately found ways to ...

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the asteroid.

A meteorite 200 times larger than the one that wiped out Earth’s dinosaurs may have been critical for ... Brenner, one of the ...

Recently, scientists ventured to the impact crater in South Africa's Barberton Greenstone belt, created by the meteorite, to ...