Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...
Around 66 million years ago an asteroid hurtled towards Earth and smashed into the planet, setting off a chain of events that ...
Viewers across Northern California sent us videos they captured of a light streaking across the sky on Monday, March 24. The sightings happened around 9 p.m. The light may be space debris. KCRA 3 has ...
A "potentially hazardous" Apollo-class asteroid will be making its closest pass by Earth in more than 100 years this week.
NASA is monitoring a large asteroid, 2014 TN17, which will pass Earth at a safe distance of about 3 million miles. The ...
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 ...
Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...
Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...
A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...
"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...