The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

Hera spacecraft successfully tested its autonomous surface feature tracking system during a high-speed flyby of Mars, marking ...

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

Hera used its black and white Asteroid Framing Camera (above) which is used for both navigation and scientific purposes. This ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

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

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

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

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

A major milestone with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has been reached with the installation of the telescope's enormous eye — ...