Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution say their seismometers likely recorded the atmospheric shock wave from ...

For Houstonians who saw it, the fireball meteor that streaked across the East Texas sky last month was a brief, blazing moment of awe. For space researchers at Rice University, it was an opportunity.

Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands ...

Meteor impacts such as February’s explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia, the most powerful observed in a century, may occur more frequently than thought. An analysis of recorded impacts over the past two ...

Two small asteroids passed within a few lunar distances of Earth in early May, tracked by international monitoring systems. Separately, researchers identified a previously unknown meteor shower linked ...

Astronomer Patrick M. Shober found a new meteor shower—and it comes from an asteroid getting broken down by the Sun. Reading time 4 minutes Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated ...