The Geminids return with near-perfect viewing conditions, offering skywatchers up to 150 meteors an hour under dark December ...

Scientists have discovered living, methane-producing microbes deep inside a massive meteorite impact crater in Sweden, and ...

China has quietly confirmed that a vast circular scar in its northeast is not a volcanic basin or a quirk of erosion, but a ...

Scientists have discovered living microbes producing methane in the fractured rocks deep inside Sweden's Siljan impact crater ...

A fractured meteorite crater in central Sweden has turned out to be a thriving home for methane-producing microbes. This ...

Meteorite hunting is a side quest for Perseverance, whose primary job is to search for signs of ancient life in Jezero and ...

NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a possible space rock on the surface of Mars. The meteorite's nickname is 'Phippsaksla.' ...

It is by far India’s most famous and only fully confirmed meteorite crater lake. Located in the basaltic Deccan Traps, this ...

A vast scar from a cosmic collision has been sitting in southern China, hiding in the landscape so effectively that people ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot has found on the Red Planet. It turns out that it probably isn't from our ...

NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a strange-looking rock on Mars that didn't belong there. It ran some scans, and the data revealed that it didn't come from the Red Planet but some other far-off point ...

The Leonid meteor shower peaks early this week with best views in the hours before sunrise Monday, Nov. 17. Some meteors may also be visible early Tuesday morning. Named for the constellation Leo, ...