Sometimes, it's hard to remember that Earth is constantly being bombarded by literally tons of space debris daily. The larger ...

Meteor strikes are usually associated with mass extinctions, but a new study shows that one meteor strike could have actually ...

Learn what could happen if a massive meteor strike hits Earth. I've been on 50 cruises. Here are 5 things I never buy on the ...

Volcanic activity in India altered the climate but didn't kill the dinosaurs; the Chicxulub meteorite did, by triggering an ...

The Geminid meteor shower peaked overnight on Dec. 13 and 14, lighting up the skies as impressive meteors struck Earth's ...

In 2008, for instance, a big meteor exploded over Sudan. No one was hurt. The largest meteorite strike in recorded history was in 1908, also over Russia. Know as the "Tunguska event," the blast ...

Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen’s University Belfast, has recently returned from ground control of ESA’s Hera mission.

Science greats such as Newton, Soldner, Darwin, and Einstein have identified and attempted to calculate GBL, but this new equation adds more accuracy than before. In part, this is done by ...

The Chicxulub meteorite impact, rather than volcanic activity, was the principal driver behind the extinction of the ...

Related: Earth vulnerable to major asteroid strike, White House science chief says The larger of the two asteroids, which was still smaller than the Chicxulub impactor that wiped most dinosaurs ...

The asteroid was first observed with the University of Arizona's Bok telescope by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey and Spacewatch, NASA confirmed. The impact prediction was made by the Scout ...