Hollywood films would have you believe that the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

The hunt is on in Hawke’s Bay for New Zealand’s 11th meteorite after a fireball was filmed streaking across the night sky. And one meteorite-hunter believes someone’s securi ...

Meteors: When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, the ...