Nuclear war is much more unpredictable than asteroids, but, unlike the dinosaurs of 66 million years ago, humans can avoid ...

A provocative new study suggests Dante’s Inferno may have secretly doubled as a giant cosmic impact scenario centuries before ...

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been treated as theology, political commentary and medieval literature folded ...

One of the greatest works of medieval literature hides within it an accurate representation of an asteroid impact, according ...

Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...

Sometime in late May 2026, a meteorite hunter in the United States picked up a freshly fallen space rock, marking the third ...

Two massive space rocks, each as large as an airplane, are making a close pass by Earth today, and it has caught the attention of scientists worldwide. Here’s what NASA says about the flyby.

An asteroid the size of three football fields will pass near Earth in three years, giving scientists a rare chance to study a colossal space rock from close range. Named Apophis — after the ancient ...

Dash camera video shows a meteor exploding into a green fireball over parts of the Northwest United States, just days after a suspected meteorite crashed through the roof of a home in Texas.

Meteorites may have fallen across a more than 12-mile range in north Houston Saturday, according to a new NASA map. Meteorites of varying sizes could have landed along a "strewn field" extending from ...

After a seven-ton fireball exploded above the Cleveland area, a group of meteorite hunters descended too, in the name of science — and possibly cash. After a seven-ton fireball exploded above the ...