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 ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of this impact rose to ...

On Feb. 18, 2025, NASA updated the probability of asteroid "2024 YR4" impacting Earth on ... of asteroid impact — the report read, "ESA reiterated an experience they had in 2023 when a small ...

The asteroid YR4's chances of impact now surpass the ... Apophis in the years ahead to map and study its surface to gain further insights into near-Earth asteroids. It's one of the many plans ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

We discovered something, we determined an impact ... In 2023 scientists detected an asteroid called 33 Polyhymnia which could have an element denser than anything found on Earth.

20 (UPI) --NASA said that new data cut the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth to 1.5%. In a blog post on Wednesday, NASA said it expects the impact ... its quest to map and unlock ...