When a meteorite with the mass of four Mount Everests hit Earth 3.2 billion years ago, it caused global chaos and provided an ...

Cataclysmic cosmic collisions may have benefited the evolution of primitive organisms early in Earth's history, a study says.

The Orionid meteor shower, which originates from Halley's Comet, is expected light up the night sky starting this weekend.

Every now and again, though, something larger gets drawn into Earth's gravitational field — and when this happens, it usually ...

Astronomers track roughly three dozen meteor showers every year, but only around 12 or so tend to be significant enough to ...

“When the two showers are active simultaneously in late October and early November, there is sometimes a notable increase in ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

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

Scientists have found where most meteorites comes from. One of them, known as the Massalia family, is responsible for 37 per ...

"Supporting evidence includes the existence of associated dust bands, the cosmic-ray exposure ages of H chondrite meteorites, ...

The blue supermoon, which is the closest full moon of the year, rises over the Capitol in Sacramento on Wednesday, Aug. 30, ...

Skygazers should have a chance to see the Orionids, one of the year's most beautiful meteor showers, just in time for ...