A 60-meter asteroid, 2024 YR4, has a 4.3% chance of hitting the Moon on December 22, 2032. NASA warns the impact could eject ...

Though ignored by the scientific community, his work at Meteor Crater, in Arizona, significantly advanced our understanding of meteorites. photograph by Orin Sealy, The Denver Post The largest ...

A few minutes after 3 a.m. on January 9, 2014, a fireball burned through the skies just off the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea; it was a meteor disintegrating in Earth’s atmosphere ...

A Cornel University study submitted to the American Astronomy Society Journals concludes that, while Earth is no longer in ...

Today in the history of astronomy, a remarkably round, young, and well-preserved impact crater is sighted in Canada.