Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...

Representative examples of 2D XRD images and microscopic images for selected enstatite grains in enstatite chondrites in the research. Enstatite chondrites (ECs) formed under extreme reducing ...

The event that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't all bad. The low-light environment caused by the meteor impact some 66 million years ago favored the spread of fungi that feed on organic matter, which ...

Meteor impacts are one of the few natural disasters that can arrive without warning, crossing the final kilometers of atmosphere in seconds. When scientists talk about the likeliest place on Earth for ...

A meteorite likely impacted a province in western Cuba, local media reported Friday afternoon. Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde reported there was "a strong explosion" in several municipalities of ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

A quiet hillside in southern China holds the mark of something that arrived with enormous force from far beyond our planet. The Jinlin crater, tucked into the low mountains of Guangdong Province, ...

Elon Musk once famously said that Tesla FSD should drive perfectly even if a UFO lands in the middle of the road. For an Australian Tesla Model Y owner, the closest thing to a UFO hit his car, and it ...