Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% ...

Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

It is popularly believed that around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

New research shows how RNA, a key molecule for life, may have formed on early Earth using simple chemistry and materials delivered by asteroid impacts, linking space science with the origins of life ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

(Phys.org)—Earth scientist Nick Teanby with the University of Bristol in the U.K. has come up with a novel way to measure seismic waves traveling through the under-surface of Mars—use data from ...

Lonar Crater Lake is a rare natural wonder in Maharashtra, formed by a meteorite impact nearly 50,000 years ago. Known for ...