The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

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

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and very low iron (LL chondrite) meteorites come to us primarily from the inner main belt. Scientists have long linked the LL chondrites to ...

Supernovas are powerful explosions marking the death of massive stars. They spread elements like carbon, calcium, and iron ...

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be written in the stars.

After a prolonged mission marked by delays and technical setbacks, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are finally heading back to Earth, departing the International Space Station early ...

The schedule for their return, and two other astronauts, from ISS has been advanced by one day. They departed using Starliner-Boeing, and will return using Dragon-SpaceX.

Chinese scientists have developed a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which may be used for prospecting and mining on the moon or asteroids in the future, Xinhua News reported ...

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The discovery that weather radar systems can detect meteorite falls marks a significant leap in how scientists study and recover these celestial fragments. Traditionally, meteorite falls have been ...