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

Moskovitz says he's become an "asteroid detective," working to protect Earth ... The mission gave the space agency a tool that could potentially be used to counter an asteroid heading for our ...

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

NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...

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

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

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

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 space agency is gearing up for another project: a spacecraft targeting asteroids. A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling ...

"Reproducing that in space is going to be much harder. At this stage it's hard to say whether [established] techniques can be employed or whether [the asteroid mining industry] will have to ...