The Perseids result from Earth passing through debris — bits of ice and rock — left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle, which last ...

Dante’s vision of Hell may echo the physics of a massive asteroid strike, offering a new way to read the Inferno.

An exclusive, challenging hike is now available to guests visiting Meteor Crater. Here's how to visit the bottom like the ...

WEST LINN, Ore. (KATU) — One of Oregon's claims to fame is the Willamette, the largest meteorite found in the U.S. Long before a farmer found it near West Linn, Ore., in 1902, the indigenous Clackamas ...

The Hoba Meteorite. Image via Wiki Commons. The Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known natural piece of iron on Earth, weighing about 60 metric tons today. By simple logic and physics, a metal ...

Just outside Odessa, Texas sits what’s often called the second largest meteor crater in the United States. It formed around 63,000 years ago and was once over 100 feet deep. But today, it barely looks ...

Just before 9 a.m. EDT on March 17, a meteor entered the atmosphere over Lake Erie and caused a sonic boom recorded on video and seismographs as it broke up over Medina County in northwestern Ohio.

A tourist taking a break in the Australian outback ended up waist-deep in human waste after falling into an outdoor toilet. While driving through Central Australia with her family on Sunday, a ...

This doesn't devalue scientific research thus far, but we might need a more unified approach for cleaning important samples, the study says. Reading time 3 minutes Stuff from Mars often makes ...

Mars 'I was not looking for this': Scientist accidentally finds shortcut to Mars that could slash travel time in half Cosmology James Webb telescope zooms in on a black hole that could reveal the ...

Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these meteors. Most movies and news alerts focus ...