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 ...

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 ...

Detailed images of the 66-million-year-old Nadir Crater offer new insights into catastrophic asteroid impacts, showing ...

The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...

Most fossils of the extinct creatures have no heads, but researchers analyzed complete fossils of juveniles and were able to ...