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

Billions of years ago, oxygen-producing microbial life flourished in an impact-generated crater filled with warm water.

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 ...

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

A bright fireball streaking across the Texas sky may have ended with a rare and dramatic impact right through the roof of a home. NASA confirmed a meteoroid about 3 feet wide and weighing roughly a ...

A research team from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered new insights into the ...

Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...

Russian authorities claim to have found the impact sites of some of the fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. Two have been found near Chebarkul Lake—one of ...

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

During their historic lunar flyby, astronauts on NASA's Artemis II mission witnessed meteorites striking the rugged surface ...

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