The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...
PASADENA, Calif. ( NewsNation) — As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space ...
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...
Some 50,000 years ago, a meteor struck near what is now Flagstaff, Arizona, leaving a 560-foot-deep crater. More recently, an ...
China’s Chang’e 6 mission uncovers evidence of a molten lunar magma ocean and a violent ancient impact.
A 500-foot- wide space rock could inflict mass casualties across a state or a small country; those arrive every 20,000 years.
New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.
Good news for those concerned about reports of a potential asteroid impact in 2032: NASA has dramatically lowered the ...
The 776th session of the Xiangshan Science Conference, themed "Key Scientific and Engineering Challenges in Near-Earth ...