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 ...
Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before ...
A meteorite 200 times larger than the one that wiped out Earth’s dinosaurs may have been critical for ... Brenner, one of the ...
NASA is preparing to monitor several asteroids, including 2024 TB2, 2007 UT3, and the larger 2020 WG, as they make safe ...
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 European Space Agency’s Hera mission is the first to send a spacecraft and two CubeSats to an asteroid in deep space.
Recently, scientists ventured to the impact crater in South Africa's Barberton Greenstone belt, created by the meteorite, to ...
Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby ...
Over 3 billion years ago the S2 impact event occurred on Earth, boiling the oceans. But in new research, scientists found it ...
A giant meteorite dubbed S2, which hit Earth around 3.26 billion years ago may have acted as a 'giant fertilizer bomb', ...
Frank Sinatra once sang, “Fly me to the moon,” but now anyone on Earth can ask “Which moon do you want to go to, Frank?” ...