Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and pallasites. Studying meteors provides ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

World-renowned Greek astrophysicist Stamatios Krimigis says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

On Thursday, March 20, Rowan held a ribbon cutting for the museum named by Smithsonian Magazine one of its top 10 most ...

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

NASA has issued an alert about a massive asteroid approaching Earth this week. The US space agency has identified Asteroid ...