MIT researchers have found pyrene, a complex carbon molecule, in a distant interstellar cloud similar to the one that formed ...

The impact site of the second asteroid is called the Nadir crater, where rock was liquified and a tsunami launched into the ...

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

Asteroids continue to closely approach Earth, with 10 atmospheric entries recorded this year. The latest, 2024 UQ, entered on ...

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

The destructive power of asteroids is undeniable — just ask the dinosaurs. New research suggests a huge space rock that ...

Zinc in meteorites reveals Earth's essential volatiles came from unmelted asteroids, crucial for life. This insight may guide ...

NIU STEAM launch to the WNIJ studio, and they brought their telescopes, to answer if Earth really has two moons.

A large amount of pyrene, a carbon-rich molecule known as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, has been found in a distant ...

"Asteroids are "bits of a planet that didn't happen" that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter – the Main Asteroid Belt.

When asteroids come within 4,600,000 miles of Earth (like the aforementioned three), they have some components of being ...

Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.