The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before ...

Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...

D: Iron in the ocean (from the ocean circulation, from the impactor itself, and from erosion), along with nutrients (like ...

Meteorite craters are fascinating to visit ... book by a world-renowned astronomer sets out the up-to-date research results on impact structures on Earth … The book is well produced with black and ...

The Taurids meteor showers illuminate November nights, offering stunning fireball displays visible even under moonlight.

While the Southern Taurids are active between Sept. 23 and Dec. 8, the celestial light show will be most visible Monday and ...

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that ...

A meteorite 200 times larger than the one that wiped out Earth’s dinosaurs may have been critical for ... Brenner, one of the ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

A new study suggests that Earth might have had a ring system around 466 million years ago, potentially formed during a period of unusually intense meteorite impacts known as the Ordovician impact spik ...