The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. It's a reminder ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important ...

The Smithsonian partners with NASA to present the Earth Information Center, a larger-than-life display that visualizes ...

The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...

Advancements in commercial satellite capabilities will enable NASA officials to transition to commercial systems to support ...

A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 ...

Richard Branson is going back to his balloon roots.

Destructive land use, mismanagement and climate change are fueling a water disaster set to wreak havoc on economies and lives ...

SpaceX's Starlink satellites now make up 40% of reentering satellite debris. But is Elon Musk's space company the worst ...

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

Geography textbooks describe the Earth's mantle beneath its plates as a well-mixed viscous rock that moves along with those ...