The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...
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 ...
A "potentially hazardous" Apollo-class asteroid will be making its closest pass by Earth in more than 100 years this week.
It's relatively small — just 130 to 300 feet (40 to 90 meters) across. But it's classified as an Apollo-type asteroid, meaning its orbit regularly intersects that of Earth, thus creating the ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.