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

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

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

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 ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

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

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

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 ...

The resonant “pumping” stretching the orbit both inward and outward from the asteroid belt has already made 2024 YR4 cross Earth’s orbit, giving it a chance to impact. The much more ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The ...

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