The 27-feet space rock is zooming past Earth at a whopping 45,522 mph.

A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

Traces of microorganisms were found in a crater in South Korea. Billions of years ago, they may have triggered the Great ...

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has captured a self-portrait at a location the science team calls "Lac de Charmes," marking ...

Scientists have confirmed the existence of the Nadir Crater, a buried impact crater under the Atlantic Ocean. This discovery, ...

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been treated as theology, political commentary and medieval literature folded ...

Long before telescopes revealed an unruly Solar System, Dante Alighieri imagined something terrible falling from the heavens. In his 14th-century Inferno, the falling object was Lucifer, the Lord of ...

"The motion of space junk is mostly quite predictable; it simply moves under the influence of the gravity of the Earth, Moon, ...

Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...

Researchers have corrected the "flight path" of the ancient impactor that created the South Pole–Aitken Basin.

A 1.85-kilometer-wide impact crater has been sitting in plain sight in northeastern China for tens of thousands of years, ...