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

A "potentially hazardous" Apollo-class asteroid will be making its closest pass by Earth in more than 100 years this week.

Mar. 17, 2025 — New 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 and spin ...

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

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

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 ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — If you looked up toward the sky in California around 9 p.m., it wasn't a fireball. It wasn't a plane. And ...

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

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

Research has identified approximately 200 locations where these asteroids or comets have struck the Earth in the past to form meteorite impact craters. It's very rare that planetary geologists can ...