What was presumably a bolide, an extremely bright meteor that's bigger than a fireball, likely exploded in Earth's atmosphere ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

A meteor that NASA says soared across the night sky above Metro Vancouver at about 100 times the speed of sound set off a ...

Metro Vancouver residents got a rare glimpse of a piece of the universe streaking across the night sky on Tuesday, a fireball ...

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

A brilliant meteor streaking across the night sky on Tuesday produced the flash and loud boom seen and heard across Metro ...

Scientists uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil—a rare type of natural glass forged in the aftermath of meteorite ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds. The work demonstrates that ...

This meant subjecting microbes to minimum pressures equivalent to ten times those of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of ...

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

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that Deinococcus radiodurans bacteria can survive the massive pressures of an asteroid ...