Asteroid 2026 JH2 will safely pass just 56,000 miles from Earth on May 18, giving astronomers a rare close-up view.

A provocative new study suggests Dante’s Inferno may have secretly doubled as a giant cosmic impact scenario centuries before ...

An asteroid designated 2026 JN4, formerly catalogued as ST26E86, entered Earth's atmosphere over Papua New Guinea on May 16, ...

Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...

A bright fireball streaking across the Texas sky may have ended with a rare and dramatic impact right through the roof of a home. NASA confirmed a meteoroid about 3 feet wide and weighing roughly a ...

Russian authorities claim to have found the impact sites of some of the fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. Two have been found near Chebarkul Lake—one of ...

How did meteorite impacts on the Moon influence water being delivered to Earth when both planetary bodies were forming? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Dante's description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks of an impact, forming a ...

The event that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't all bad. The low-light environment caused by the meteor impact some 66 million years ago favored the spread of fungi that feed on organic matter, which ...