"A meteor the size of a softball can produce a flash as bright as the full moon and qualify as a fireball," Lunsford said in an emailed statement. "Therefore, this object was still relatively small, ...

The researchers believe the geraisites’ crater may lie in the São Francisco Craton, a region in the eastern part of South America’s continental crust. Future surveys are needed in order to detect ...

Astronomers have reported observations of a rare star system consisting of one star orbiting a system of three more tightly ...

We’re not the only animals that farm; ants do it too, cultivating vast quantities of fungus to feed their growing ...

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

Paleomagnetic analysis of 28 Ryugu asteroid particles reveals stable magnetization acquired within millions of years of solar ...

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...

Michael Bay's disaster epic Armageddon was a huge box office hit, but most critics didn't care for it, especially Roger Ebert.

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

In Madison and nearby southeast Missouri counties, William Jud, a Fredericktown geologist, may have identified a buried ...