On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, and raised hopes that a space rock could be deflected from a collision ...

A Russian space capsule has landed safely in the remote Orenburg steppes, completing a month-long mission that carried an extraordinary biological payload. Dubbed a “Noah’s Ark”, the spacecraft ...

In a science lab on the fourth floor of UTSA's Multidisciplinary Studies Building, UTSA students engage in meticulous choreography around a glowing furnace, melting rocks to produce lava.

Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory has released open-source software to detect potentially harmful shooting stars, called bolides—bright meteors that explode as they enter Earth's ...

Strange glass strewn across southern Australia appears to be from a mystery asteroid impact 11 million years ago.

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unknown asteroid impact, but the crater is still at large. The clues of this bygone cataclysm consist of tektites—a type of natural glass that forms ...

The Cincinnati Observatory is bringing together meteorite collectors to talk about their prizes and how anyone can find space rocks on Earth.

Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea was formed by an influence of asteroid over 43 million years ago, confirmed by scientists. This is addressing a decades-long geological debate. Since its ...