Resaerchers have found that the vast majority of meteorites pummelling the Earth's atmosphere come from only three different ...

Harvard researchers found that when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet 3 billion years ago, it may have ...

A massive meteorite impact 3.26 billion years ago could have helped boost early microbial life by releasing nutrients into ...

A NEW ‘Halloween Comet’ may be visible in daylit skies for one to two hours this week as it makes its closest approach of ...

Discover how the massive S2 meteorite, 4 times the size of Mount Everest, may have sparked life on Earth 3.26 billion years ago by unleashing vital nutrients.

The largest of the six asteroids, 363305 (2002 NV16), has an estimated diameter of between 140 and 310 meters (up to 580 feet ...

Scientists have uncovered that over 70 percent of meteorites reaching Earth come from just three asteroid families in the ...

The S2 meterorite, which hit the planet just over 3 billion years ago, dwarfed the one that caused the dinosaurs' extinction, ...

New research traces the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual ...

A meteor up to 200 times bigger than the the one that killed the dinosaurs landed 3.26 billion years ago, triggering ...

It’s the final countdown for skygazers as the much anticipated Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will disappear from our night sky by ...

Traditionally, giant space rocks colliding with Earth are seen as a bad thing for life. That's certainly true now, but the ...