The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t keep life down for long. New research shows that microscopic plankton began evolving into new species within just a few thousand years—and ...

Researchers continue to extract fresh scientific findings from Barringer Meteorite Crater in Arizona, a bowl-shaped depression carved by a space rock roughly 50,000 to 60,000 years ago. Recent ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Geology proposes that the same asteroid strike that carved Arizona’s Meteor Crater roughly 50,000 years ago also triggered a massive landslide inside the ...

Lucknow: The possibility of India establishing a scientific base on the moon in the next five decades may become a reality, ...

Antarctica, the planet's largest repository of meteorites, is beginning to hide them under the ice due to global warming.

Arizona's Meteor Crater remains 'the perfect natural laboratory' for studying what happens when meteors strike Earth, scientists say.

In a series of experiments at Johns Hopkins University, Lily Zhao fired tiny samples of a microorganism with a room-sized gas ...

A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite crashes through the roof of a house in Georgia, revealing clues about the origin of the Solar System.

Oxygen isotope analysis of lunar soil shows meteorites delivered only a limited amount of water to the Earth–Moon system ...

Meteorite pieces from the Kaali crater on Saaremaa are being picked up from an online auction site after the Polish finders placed them for sale there, Eesti Ekspress reported.

Try searching for your own micrometeorites by collecting particulates from roofs or drain spouts. Use a magnet to see if any particles are attracted, and discard nonmagnetic ones. Use your microscope ...

A fireball meteor exploded over Europe and scattered fragments across a German town, with one meteorite smashing through the roof of a house.