Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

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

If the bad news is that Kirkwood gaps are due to asteroids hitting inner planets, including Earth ... orbit both inward and outward from the asteroid belt has already made 2024 YR4 cross Earth's ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...

The review yielded positive results, reflecting remarkable progress in the national team’s capabilities, and reinforcing the preparations for the mission launch ...