Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...
The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...
As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
Astronomers are closely monitoring Asteroid 2024 YR4 amid concerns that it could collide with the Moon in 2032. While the asteroid is no longer considered a significant threat to Earth, new ...
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...
"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.
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 ...