A scientist says fragments of a meteorite that punched through a Georgia homeowner's roof after blazing across the sky in a fiery streak is older than the Earth itself. University of Georgia ...

Humans are not the most rational beings when it comes to fear, especially about things that are interesting and dramatic in ...

A massive comet trail may have caused climate upheaval on Earth more than 12,000 years ago, sparking the Younger Dryas.

These strange objects could explain how water arrived on Earth, but may also be a previously unrecognised threat to our ...

What are the chances of someone dying due to an asteroid strike in their lifetime? Seems like a strange question to ask, but ...

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

The team identifies one particularly intriguing event in 1952, in which three orbs appeared and then disappeared within 50 minutes.

The researchers used NASA data to work out that there is a one in 156,000 chance of an individual being killed by an asteroid ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, initially a concern for Earth, now poses a slight risk to the Moon. While a direct Earth impact is ruled ...

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it might hit the moon.

Sandi Lab experiments demonstrate how heliostats that concentrate solar energy can detect Near Earth Objects like asteroids ...