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 ...

The largest and oldest-known impact site on the moon is the South Pole-Aitken basin. Thanks to new research, scientists have ...

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 ...

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

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately 120 million miles, are called near-Earth objects—or NEOs," Svetla ...

The source of Earth's water is an enduring mystery that extends to exoplanets and the notion of habitability. In broad terms, ...

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.

An international team of researchers has demonstrated that 70% of all known meteorite collisions with Earth have come from ...