When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reached Vesta in 2011, it found a 500-kilometer-wide world scarred by two planet-scale impacts.

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed our lunar companion is safe for now from an asteroid impact.

Scientists uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil—a rare type of natural glass forged in the aftermath of meteorite ...

Libyan authorities say a Russian-flagged tanker carrying liquefied natural gas exploded and erupted in flames before sinking ...

The newly found tektites in Brazil are named "geraisites," after the east coast Brazilian state of Minas Gerais where they were found. The geraisites are between 1 gram and 86 grams in mass and have ...

NASA says there's now zero chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into the moon in 2032. The space agency had been ...

Brenda Moons is a dedicated leader, skilled collaborator and advocate for equitable access to education. As a key leader within the Meteor Crater Education Alliance, she has helped build the ...

Moscow — Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the Federal Customs Service reported Thursday. The huge specimen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The huge specimen weighing about 2.8 tons is believed to have come from the Aletai meteorite, one of the largest known iron ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into smuggling (Handout) (Handout/Federal Customs Service of Russia/AFP) Russian ...

Get ready for chaotic and hilarious action in the Giant Crater MEME2 challenge! In this video, a massive meteorite crashes spectacularly into a police car, triggering wild chaos and unexpected physics ...