The researchers believe the geraisites’ crater may lie in the São Francisco Craton, a region in the eastern part of South ...

There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...

Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to ...

More than 50,000 years ago, a meteor hit Earth and formed what we now call Meteor Crater in northern Arizona. But new ...

On December 22, 2032, a sixty-metre-wide asteroid may strike the Moon. If this happens, it will not only produce a visible flash, easily spotted from Earth, but will likely be followed by periodic ...

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In ...

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 ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032?