Before our Solar System had planets, it had planetesimals. Scientists think that most of the meteorites that have struck Earth…
What are your chances of getting smacked – and killed -- by a meteorite? One astronomer put the odds of…
20% of the surface of Earth's Eastern Hemisphere is littered with a certain kind of rock. Black, glossy blobs called…
About 466 million years ago, there was an asteroid collision in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The collision…
Remember the asteroid Psyche? It's the largest known asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's been in…
A meteorite recently was spotted in the Great Lakes region and could have left fragments in the area around Bancroft,…
A new study reveals why many meteors, when they enter Earth's atmosphere, become cone-shaped as they heat up.
When an extraterrestrial object slams into the Earth, it sends molten rock high into the atmosphere. That debris cools and…
The early days of the Solar System are hard to piece together from our vantage point, billions of years after…
We have comets and asteroids to thank for Earth's water, according to the most widely-held theory among scientists. But it's…