Some 50,000 years ago, a meteor struck near what is now Flagstaff, Arizona, leaving a 560-foot-deep crater. More recently, an ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite internet constellation, has put over 6,000 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites into space, ostensibly to provide people with affordable, quality internet even in remote ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The discovery that weather radar systems can detect meteorite falls marks a significant leap in how scientists study and ...

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

WLKY viewer sends video of meteor burning up in atmosphere in Louisville ...