An international team of researchers may have answered one of space science's long-running questions—and it could change our ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

An international team of researchers may have answered one of space science’s long-running questions – and it could change our understanding of how life began.   Carbon-rich asteroids are abundant in ...

Shortly after it was discovered, astronomers calculated that the asteroid had a 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 — ...

NASA has issued a warning about asteroid 2023 KU, a 370-foot-wide space rock traveling at over ... equivalent to that of nuclear bombs, wiping out entire regions and cities. In 2013, the ...

Look up and be dumbstruck with wonder: the Lyrid meteor shower will grace the skies this month. Records of this celestial ...

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When the universe gives you asteroid lemons ... Kingdom and Space Initiatives Inc propose in a paper uploaded to the preprint database arXiv in February. They pointed out that, even though ...

However, there remains a risk for the moon — not that the asteroid would significantly damage the moon even if it does hit. For the new study, researchers captured images of the space rock at ...

n huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly four percent chance of smashing into the Moon, according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The asteroid ...

And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis ... revealed that the nearly 60m space rock was hockey puck-shaped and rapidly rotated ...