The Leonid meteor shower is expected to reach peak activity during the early morning hours of Nov. 17 and Nov. 18, the ...

But Earth was young and a very different place when the S2 meteorite, estimated to have 50 to 200 times more mass than the dinosaur extinction-triggering Chicxulub asteroid, collided with the ...

But Harvard researchers found that something much more unlikely happened when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet. Instead of ending life, the space rock may have allowed it to ...

Billions of years ago, long before anything resembling life as we know it existed, meteorites frequently pummeled the planet. One such space rock crashed down about 3.26 billion years ago ...

One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of the few meteorites that can be traced directly to Mars. This meteorite was rediscovered in a drawer at Purdue University ...

But that was far from the largest meteorite to strike our planet. One up to 200 times bigger landed 3.26 billion years ago, triggering worldwide destruction at an even greater scale. But ...

Louis Moinet has unveiled a limited edition watch with its gaze firmly fixed on the cosmos. The back part of the Starman’s ...

A meteorite impact 3.26 billion years ago, much larger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, may have served as a "giant fertilizer bomb" for early life, providing crucial nutrients.