Researchers reveal how cosmic airbursts strike Earth without craters - and why they may be more common and destructive than ...

Some cosmic impacts are loud, fiery, and leave unmistakable craters. Others are quieter in geological terms, yet no less ...

Most people are aware that an asteroid wiped out much of life on Earth around 65 million years ago, and this knowledge ...

In the new study, researchers set out to calculate just how likely it is that an asteroid could hit Earth during the average ...

The Moon, unlike Earth, lacks an atmosphere to absorb or deflect impact debris. A direct hit from YR4 could create a crater nearly 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) wide, comparable to Arizona’s Meteor Crater.

The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is different, however. It is well preserved (not deeply eroded or buried under sediments) ...

Fragments of a meteorite that fell to Earth as part of a mysterious daytime fireball in late June missed striking a man near ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. It now poses a threat to the moon, rather than Earth.

A piece of space rock that crashed into a home in Atlanta, Georgia, had been zooming around in space for longer than Earth ...

A meteorite, older than Earth itself, crashed through a Georgia home. Estimated to be 4.56 billion years old, this ancient ...

The latest data on asteroid 2024 YR4 has scientists confident that Earth is no longer in the bullseye. However the enormous ...

Particles the size of large sand grains, ranging from 0.1 to 10 millimeters in size, of lunar material could reach Earth between a few days and a few months after the asteroid strike because they ...