The largest and oldest-known impact site on the moon is the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, stretching across nearly 1,250 ...

The meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs was an insignificant chunk of rock compared to a monster that slammed into the ...

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Billions of years ago, Earth was frequently struck by meteorites. One of the largest impacts occurred around 3.26 billion ...

More than 2 billion years before the dinosaur-destroying meteorite, a meteorite the size of four Mt. Everests, known as S-2, crashed into Earth, creating a planetwide tsunami that actually had a ...

A giant meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and may have sparked life, ...

The Northern and Southern Taurid meteor showers will peak in early to mid-November this year, possibly bringing fireballs.

A recent study conducted by an international team of scientists suggests that three distinct asteroid families in the main asteroid belt account for approximately 70 percent of the meteorites found on ...

Some billions of years ago, Earth was a very different place. Long before life appeared on Earth, countless meteorites rained ...

When a meteorite quadruple the size of Mount Everest slammed into ancient Earth, some microbial life thrived, a new study ...