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

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

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 ...

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

Suni and Butch returned with two SpaceX Crew-9 crew members, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr ...

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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 ...