When a six-mile-wide asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it didn’t just wipe out the dinosaurs. New findings ...

S cientists have predicted and experimentally confirmed the existence of a material with “hybrid crystal-glass thermal ...

If Asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the Moon in 2032, it would be the largest impact in about 5,000 years, according to a new analysis. Researchers say the Moon debris would threaten spacecraft in ...

When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout ...

The NWA 16788 Martian meteorite, believed to be the largest ever found on Earth, was sold at Sotheby’s auction in New York ...

A martian meteorite — the largest single piece of rock from Mars known to be on Earth — just sold at auction for $5.3 million ...

A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and reshaped the Colorado River that runs through the national park. Geologists studying driftwood and lake ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of ...