Germany-based Isar Aerospace attempted to launch the first orbital rocket from European soil on Sunday morning (March 30).

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

There are many home-grown problems on Earth, but there's still time to worry about bad things arriving from above.

Could supernovas have triggered ancient mass extinctions on Earth? New research explores how cosmic explosions may have ...

Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking out about, 2024 YR4? Initially predicted with a small but ...

And then the asteroid hit, creating the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan Peninsula. This event caused an impact winter that ...

For over a decade, a star system on the verge of unleashing a deadly gamma ray burst appeared to have its guns trained on Earth ... burst it would unleash upon exploding could barrage our planet ...

Sep. 3, 2024 — Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest moon's axis has shifted as a result of the impact ...

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

Less snow generally means less salt, but there’s more to it than that. Melting and refreezing also necessitate treatment, and that Arctic blast played a part too.

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...