When a meteorite with the mass of four Mount Everests hit Earth 3.2 billion years ago, it caused global chaos and provided an ...

The chemistry of the rock layers reveals remnants of the meteor itself, which was a primitive type of space rock called a ...

The Northern Taurid meteor shower is expected to peak Monday night into Tuesday. Here’s what to look for and how to see it.

occur when large meteorites hit Earth, and they form sedimentary layers in rocks that are known as spherule beds. The team collected a range of samples in South Africa and analyzed the rocks ...

Billions of years ago, meteorites hit Earth frequently. This particular space rock, called the S2 meteorite, collided with the planet around 3.26 billion-years-ago, and after that certain life forms ...

A huge meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans, scientists have discovered. The space rock, which was 200 times the size of the ...

The research team traveled for three field seasons to Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa to collect the samples needed for the study, accompanied with years of laboratory work, Drabon said. The ...

Cataclysmic cosmic collisions may have benefited the evolution of primitive organisms early in Earth's history, a study says.

These two dates are when the meteor showers are at their height of activity, although they’ll be around for much longer than a single night. The South Taurids run from around September 23 to November ...