With the help of our sister magazine "How It Works," we've pulled together some of the best science books for kids of all ages ... But the future of Earth doesn’t have to be a negative one.

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

"They can penetrate metal on satellites, hit circuit boards, and can be carcinogenic if they hit a person in space." ...

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

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same ... “I got the idea when I read a popular science article about Phobos and Deimos, the moons around Mars, having formed ...

Everything has a beginning, and a new study finds that the start of life on Earth arrived in the form of melted asteroids.

Just a few smashups in the asteroid belt may account for 70 percent of Earth’s meteorites, limiting what’s known about our solar system’s history.

Unfortunately, at just about 10 metres in size, the mini-moon will be extremely difficult to see from Earth, but it will nonetheless be present for almost two months. The asteroid, which was ...

SFCC in conjunction with the Santa Fe Stargazers have announced a Star Party to raise funds for the college's planetarium.

The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies called "planetesimals" in ...

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

NASA scientists calculated that Earth should have captured ... Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine ...