A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite crashes through the roof of a house in Georgia, revealing clues about the origin of the Solar System.

If the world wasn't scary enough already, we're also regularly warned that a gigantic asteroid might come crashing into our home planet. If an asteroid were to crash into the sea, it would likely ...

Researchers have confirmed that Silverpit Crater, buried beneath the southern North Sea, was formed by a massive asteroid impact roughly 43-46 million years ago Pexels Researchers have confirmed that ...

This ends the 20-year debate on whether the North Sea's Silverpit crater was formed by a 43-million-year-old asteroid impact or by geological salt movement ...

New research shows structure is one of Earth’s rare impact craters after massive asteroid struck region millions of years ago ...

ESPOO, Finland — China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission is entering flight hardware development, targeting a late 2028 launch to seek out biosignatures on the Red Planet. The mission has ...

BEIJING -- China's mission to retrieve samples from Mars will advance to the flight model development phase within this year, Liu Jizhong, chief designer of the Tianwen 3 mission, said on Thursday.

Asteroids would’ve supplied the raw materials, heat, and geologic plumbing to circulate prebiotic matter while also creating ...

A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

Scientists studying tiny samples from the asteroid Ryugu have uncovered new clues about the magnetic environment that existed ...

Researchers analyzed 28 Ryugu asteroid samples and found preserved magnetic signals that record early solar system magnetic fields and water-driven alteration on its parent body.