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 ...

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A new study suggests meteor impacts may have created hydrothermal systems on early Earth, offering a possible setting for the origin of life.

New research suggests that the violent collisions between meteors and early Earth did not just destroy, they may have built the chemical staging grounds where life first took hold. By generating ...

The moon isn’t so lucky.. Astronomers estimate around 100 meteoroids the size of ping-pong balls strike the lunar surface ...

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the ...

The Apophis asteroid, once feared to hit Earth, is less than three years from making an unprecedented approach toward Earth.

The asteroid that NASA’s Dart spacecraft slammed into was never a threat to Earth. “This study marks a notable step forward in our ability to prevent future asteroid impacts on Earth,” the ...

Arizona's Meteor Crater and other scars leftover from collisions with space rocks continue to serve up their secrets. Meteor Crater formed some 50,000 years ago. It represents the best preserved ...

Lake Manicouagan is a massive ring-shaped lake in northern Quebec, Canada, that fills the bowl of an ancient meteor impact crater. Often called “The Eye of Quebec,” this stunning geological landmark ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, findings that could help divert a future incoming ...