On August 28, 2025, researchers aimed their equipment towards an area of sky where they expected to find the asteroid 1998 ...

China’s Tianwen 2 and Japan’s Hayabusa 2 vessels have beamed back photographs and information from the small worlds ...

Beijing will use ground telescopes and orbital satellites to track dangerous space rocks that currently go undetected.

Asteroid 1998 SH2 managed to fool astronomers for nearly 30 years by its appearance and movement. But when it dodged a date ...

The Hillsborough meteorite. (A. Gordon/Jenniskens et al., Sci. Adv., 2026) In July 2024, residents of the New York ...

Artemis II will send astronauts around the Moon for the first time since 1972.New telescopes will survey billions of galaxies and search for tho ...

In 2024, a meteorite carrying delicate chemical evidence struck a home in New Jersey. The homeowner knew just what to do.

A New Jersey couple helped scientists uncover the makeup of an unusual asteroid after it fell into their bedroom.

The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs erased nearly all traces of itself. It struck Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 ...

Exactly two years ago tomorrow, an unexpected visitor startled a homeowner in Hillsborough, New Jersey. When a loud crash ...

The Hillsborough meteorite belongs to a rare class of rocks from space, according to a new study. It holds amino acids and ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and ...