Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds. The work demonstrates that a certain ...

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...

More than 50,000 years ago, a meteor hit Earth and formed what we now call Meteor Crater in northern Arizona. But new ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

The newly found tektites in Brazil are named "geraisites," after the east coast Brazilian state of Minas Gerais where they were found. The geraisites are between 1 gram and 86 grams in mass and have ...

A conspiracy theory that spread on social media claims that gravity will disappear for seven seconds this August, and that NASA is aware that this will happen. A physics professor explains why this is ...