Earth is still collecting scars from space, and scientists are only now learning to read them properly. Newly mapped impact craters, both on land and hidden beneath the oceans, are revealing that ...

Egeria’s close pass: Asteroid 13 Egeria passes less than a degree from 80 Virginis, making it easy to track its southwestward drift with a telescope or camera. Schickard in view: Before sunrise May 12 ...

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been treated as theology, political commentary and medieval literature folded ...

The Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known natural piece of iron on Earth, weighing about 60 metric tons today. By ...

A long-running dispute about the origin of a North Sea crater has finally been settled, as new research finds a massive asteroid hit the water and triggered a towering tsunami millions of years ago.

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been read as a moral and spiritual descent, a journey into sin, punishment, and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In its 4.6-billion-year history, Earth has had some truly catastrophic run-ins with ancient celestial bodies. None rival the cataclysmic collision ...

An ancient impact may have scattered material from deep inside the moon toward NASA's planned Artemis landing sites near the ...

A great Tyrannosaurus rex strides through the conifer trees of her territory, sniffing the air. She picks up the scent from ...

Even 200 years after asteroid 16 Psyche was discovered, astronomers continue to puzzle over its formation. Psyche is the 10th-most massive asteroid in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the ...