The vast majority of Earth's meteorites come from these three asteroid families, according to researchers.

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

Scientists have discovered that the oldest and largest impact basin on the moon, called the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, is ...

The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...

Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...

Scientists have traced the source of more than 70% of meteorites that have hit Earth to specific asteroid families, providing ...

Three new studies have revealed the common origin of most of the meteorites that hit Earth, linking them to collisions in the ...

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

Over time, the meteorites that land on Earth will be able to tell the story of events happening 200 million miles away in ...

The Taurid Meteoroid Stream, which is possibly responsible for the famous Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impacts, probably doesn't ...

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), the comet some call the ‘comet of the century’, was captured soaring across the sky ...