It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

L ast February, debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set the skies of Europe ablaze before crashing down to Earth in Poland, ...

A NASA study shows that meteorites delivered only a small amount of water to Earth over the past four billion years.

A new NASA study using Apollo lunar soil samples challenges a long-held theory. It suggests meteorites were not the primary ...

Scientists estimate a 4.3 percent chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 could strike the Moon, creating a massive crater and triggering a meteor shower visible from Earth.

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

A close-up view of a portion of a "relatively fresh" crater, looking southeast, as photographed during the third Apollo 15 lunar surface ...

Earlier research held that meteorite impacts from the solar system's early days were a major source of Earth's water.

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered a major share of Earth's water. A new study by Universities Space Research ...

Falling satellites and large orbital debris create massive sonic booms and scientists are using them to track dangerous space junk.

Mikel Brown Jr. returned to Earth with all the subtlety of a meteor crash. A week after saving Louisville with 20 points ...

The city’s architecture travels through time and continents, incorporating everything from slabs of the Italian Alps to meteorites that hit southern Africa 2bn years ago ...