The Moon, like the Earth, has been bombarded by asteroids and comets since its formation, leaving behind craters of varying sizes ... To do this, they analysed a lunar meteorite known as Northwest ...

Researchers at Harvard's Paleomagnetics Lab have made a compelling case that Mars' magnetic field, which could have supported ...

The study claims that Earth's continents are drifting and will one day form a single supercontinent. This will be accompanied ...

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater. Rock was liquified, launching a tsunami into the Atlantic Ocean ...

Conversely, Nightingale was a fresher crater suffused with organic material ... Long ago, a catastrophic collision snapped Bennu off of its parent body, the near-Earth asteroid we know today. There is ...

The so-called "Halloween comet" vaporized as it flew within 1 million miles of the sun on Monday, its destruction captured by ESA and NASA observers.

Researchers find Mars may have supported life up to 3.9 billion years ago, challenging previous theories of early dynamo ...

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

Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries Ouarkziz Crater ...

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