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

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

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

“Others built similar networks spread around the globe, which together form the ... for planetary defense efforts against Near Earth Asteroids. An approaching asteroid’s orbit can provide ...

The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos ...

A study led by researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), published in the journal ... while revealing the early onset of metal core formation processes in asteroids. In this ...

YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero, the level for 'No Hazard' as additional tracking of its orbital path has reduced its possibility of intersecting the Earth to below the ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and very low iron (LL chondrite) meteorites come to us primarily from the inner main belt. Scientists have long linked the LL chondrites to ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

Comets tend to be larger than asteroids, and have a much ... or “gravity tractors,” to nudge Near Earth Objects off an impact trajectory with the globe, but these technologies can require ...

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...