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

Some 50,000 years ago, a meteor struck near what is now Flagstaff, Arizona, leaving a 560-foot-deep crater. More recently, an ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

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

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western ...

Researchers in Western Australia believe an asteroid struck the Pilbara region 3.57 billion years ago, making it the oldest ...

New research suggests tiny electrical charges in water droplets could have fueled the chemical reactions that led to life.

NASA has announced that the 540-foot-wide asteroid 2014 TN17 will pass Earth on March 26, 2025. Despite the pass being 5 million kilometers away, its designation as a potentially hazardous asteroid ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

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 ...

PASADENA, Calif. ( NewsNation) — As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space ...