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 ...

The Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known natural piece of iron on Earth, weighing about 60 metric tons today. By ...

Most of us have probably seen a shooting star, but our meteor knowledge likely stops there, with all the gaps filled by myths ...

Route 66 is celebrating 100 years — and people are driving through the historic highway in the hopes of finding those ...

Sen captured footage from space on Saturday showing the world’s largest impact craters. The satellite video offered a breathtaking view of the circular, frozen Manicouagan Reservoir, covered in snow ...

This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...

A quiet hillside in southern China holds the mark of something that arrived with enormous force from far beyond our planet. The Jinlin crater, tucked into the low mountains of Guangdong Province, ...

(WJW) — A streaking fireball lit the stark, cold Tuesday morning sky and detonated with the force of 250 tons of TNT, rattling windows and alarming Northeast Ohioans. Bolide meteors — like the one ...

Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico Distinguished Professors Emeritus Karl Karlstrom and Laurie Crossey, along with ...

Jokes aside, the Kopjeskraal road on the Northwest side of the Vaal is a vital tourism artery. It is heavily used by buses ...