Researchers discovered a 3.26-billion-year-old asteroid impact acted as 'giant fertilizer bomb,' aiding early microbial life.

This impact occurred around 3.3 billion years ago, during the solar system’s early years, when asteroid collisions were far more frequent. This meteorite, designated as S2, is roughly 200 ...

Astronomers have identified asteroid 2022 WJ1 as the smallest asteroid ever characterized, measuring just 16 to 27 inches in ...

New geological research suggests that a gigantic asteroid impact over 3 billion years ago, despite creating extreme ...

In an international study led by Western University and Lowell Observatory, scientists describe a pioneering, integrative ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

Only two hours after being detected, an asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and slammed into the Pacific Ocean, seemingly ...

However, on the bright side, the object measured just 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter and posed very little threat to anything on Earth's surface. This asteroid, designated 2024 UQ, was first ...

New research reveals that 70% of meteorites that strike Earth originate from three young asteroid families in the main ...

since it measured only 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter. The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, a four-telescope survey based in Hawaii for monitoring near-Earth objects, had discovered ...