These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

But still, very little remains from Earth's early days, and what is left is eroded and warped. Fewer than 7% of rocks on the ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests.

When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...

The asteroid was first observed on October 22 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey in Hawaii.

The new study suggests that the planet experienced a swift and intense melting phase following the last global ice age. At ...