The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
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 ...
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...
As Johnny Cade, Ralph Macchio was the heart of The Outsiders — and the one who got to utter the film’s most famous line: ...
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 ...
The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...
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 ...
A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...
Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...
"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.