The Leonid meteor shower streaks across the night sky in November. Here's what to know, including when is the best time to ...

Arizona. One crisp day in February, representatives from Lockheed Martin approached his advisor, Michael Drake, who was then ...

Arizona. While the recent asteroid was not sighted by people, as it burst over the Pacific Ocean, the Philippines one was caught by many. Another space object fell in South Africa in August ...

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to better understand the solar system’s early history and the origins of materials ...

However, despite its significance, the formation age of the SPA basin has remained uncertain until now. A team of researchers studied a lunar meteorite, Northwest Africa 2995, found in the Sahara ...

But that was far from the largest meteorite to strike our planet ... This rock vapor cloud and dust ejected from the crater would have circled the globe and turned the sky black within hours ...

DART served as a proof of concept for technology that could one day protect humanity from a dangerous asteroid. Now, ESA’s Hera is on its way to scope the aftermath and analyze the crater left ...

A huge meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans, scientists have discovered. The space rock, which was 200 times the size of ...

The Meteor Crater Education Alliance (MCEA) will be hosting its first fundraising event, Crater Challenge 2024, on Saturday, Nov. 2. Participants can choose one of two options for a 2 1/2-mile ...

Then there’s the Meteor Crater in Arizona, which is about 50,000 years old and shows just how powerful these impacts can be. Ancient cosmic events have also played a huge role in shaping human ...

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