Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs left a massive buried crater off the Yucatan coast in Mexico. Known as the ...

A piece of space debris is the focus of the closest attention of astronomers worldwide as scientists evaluate a rare, but ...

When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is about 60 metres long, may hit the Moon in December of the year 2032. Scientists assured that Earth is ...

Some 200km to the south of Pilansberg lies a very different kind of crater: the Vredefort structure with mountain rings and a circular core known as the Dome. It is a Unesco World Heritage Site, ...

A brilliant flash on the Moon's dark side, captured by Irish astronomers on December 12, 2025, likely signals a meteoroid ...

A rock no bigger than a golf ball could have caused the recent lunar impact, according to the observatory. At an ultra-high ...

Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a ...

It's one of the best annual meteor shows on Earth: the Geminids Meteor Shower. Observed since the late 19th century, the Geminids peak between Dec 12 and 14 this year, with the shower phase continuing ...

An asteroid roughly the size of a small city may slam into the Moon in 2032, and if it does, the blast could hurl clouds of lunar rock into space and toward Earth. Scientists say the odds of a direct ...