In September 2025, an X post viewed over 1 million times claimed the world's biggest meteorite impact crater was in Mexico and included a video of the purported site. The video an ...
Several California residents reported seeing a fiery, meteor-like object shooting through the sky on Thursday night. But was it? • Video Above: Mysterious light streaks across ...
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, and raised hopes that a space rock could be deflected from a collision ...
Billion of Asteroids: The "Living Fossils" of Solar System Formation and Evolution ...
A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...
Kenneth Lacovara, Ph.D., has spent years traveling the world looking for fossils and the extinction layer–a sediment layer covering the world that signifies the end of the Cretaceous period that ...
An enormous asteroid is approaching Earth at 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to us in two days' time. The ...
The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The space rock was previously predicted to have a slim chance of impacting our ...
Today, the near-Earth asteroid known as Ryugu is bone dry. But new research suggests that the half-mile space rock may have once been flowing with liquid water — and crucially, at a period in the ...
According to Jenniskens and other scientists with NASA and the SETI Institute, the chi Cygnids were detected in late August, indicating the shower is expected to increase in activity until peaking ...
When a massive asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, the solution seems straightforward; smash a spacecraft into it and knock it off course. That’s exactly what NASA successfully did with the DART ...