Just before 9 a.m. EDT on March 17, a meteor entered the atmosphere over Lake Erie and caused a sonic boom recorded on video ...

Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...

A rare rock sample, containing natural cubic zirconia, from West Clearwater Lake. Credit: Jeff Renaud For more than a decade, Western University planetary geologist Gordon "Oz" Osinski has led ...

The moon is bombarded by meteoroids the size of ping-pong balls every day. If humans want to have a long-term presence on ...

MIDLAND, Texas — You may have seen posts circulating on social media claiming an asteroid or meteor struck near Midland and Ector County early Sunday morning. According to the posts, videos ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In its 4.6-billion-year history, Earth has had some truly catastrophic run-ins with ancient celestial bodies. None rival the cataclysmic collision ...

Sloths are the slowest mammals of all, but asteroid 2026 HX3 is anything but that – both in terms of being slow and in terms ...

How did meteorite impacts on the Moon influence water being delivered to Earth when both planetary bodies were forming? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

NASA is inviting the public to join its Impact Flash project to monitor meteoroids striking the moon, aiding research for future lunar bases. Citizen scientists with telescopes can record brief ...