Planetary scientists have recently drawn a connection between the birth of Jupiter and the formation zone of Earth, ...

Imagine you had to experience an apocalypse every day. Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, asteroid showers. Every day would be a ...

Ceres is the largest 'asteroid' in our solar system, big enough that it's actually classified as a dwarf planet, like Pluto.

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

A meteorite that broke off 2023 CXI and was found in northwestern France Volunteers search for meterorites in February 2023 in Angiens, France With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked ...

Eugene Shoemaker, the founder of astrogeology, dedicated his life to understanding planetary formation through impacts. His ...

But orbiters around Mars and Jupiter will get a look ... The telescope in Chile – part of the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS – was the first to spot what initially ...

Scientists reveal that an asteroid impact in Finland created a long-lasting habitat where microbes thrived millions of years after impact.

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere and sent fiery fragments shooting to the ground, gathering new information ...