Like meteors, space junk travels at vast speeds as it travels through the atmosphere and it begins burning up spectacularly.

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured asteroid 10199 Chariklo occult the star Gaia DR3 6873519665992128512. It was the ...

The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

On May 9, 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the first-ever asteroid sample return mission, Hayabusa. This ...

Our new study may offer an answer. Using seismic data from NASA’s InSight mission, we uncovered evidence that the seismic ...

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is known for its fast fireballs, which occur as Earth passes through the rubble left by ...

What happens when two carbon-rich space rocks slam into each other? You'd expect to see clear signs of impact in the ensuing meteorites — but for over 30 years, scientists have puzzled over why ...

"This 230–510 meters large asteroid will reach its minimum distance (about 4.2 millions of km, 10.9 times the average lunar ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was ...

What is behind meteorites’ allure? These space rocks bring the unknown Universe down to Earth, and within reach. Yet, meteoritics wasn’t always an accepted discipline, Howgego explains in The ...