"While the site had previously been identified as an ancient impact crater, its exact age remained uncertain." ...

This year’s Asteroid Day has planned events worldwide and online. It acts as a reminder about advances in planetary defense.

Earth four billion years ago was very different from the world today. Rather than having firm continents surrounded by oceans ...

Across the planet, lakes are usually associated with glaciers, rivers, volcanic activity, or shifting tectonic landscapes. A ...

On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone—popular in jewelry since the Bronze Age and valued highly ...

Long before oceans teemed with life, Earth endured relentless violence. Asteroids slammed into its surface again and again, ...

Repeated asteroid impacts during the Hadean eon kept Earth's surface hot and unstable, with heat driving geological activity and influencing crust formation, a new study finds.

Imagine a normal night at home suddenly interrupted by a blazing space rock crashing straight through your roof. Glass ...

In the Pilbara of Western Australia, some of Earth's oldest rocks lie beneath the sky, as they have for billions of years.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft revealed that a bizarre wobbling, peanut-shaped asteroid holds surprising clues about ancient water ...

July offers stargazers exciting celestial events, from a meteor shower to the Summer Triangle and a viewing of the Andromeda ...