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 hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

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Asteroid 2014 TN17, measuring 540 feet wide, will safely pass Earth on March 26, 2025, despite being classified as ...

NASA’s Crew-10 mission will bring back Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams after nine months on the ISS. Their extended stay ...

The dinosaurs, of course, could do nothing about the killer asteroid, other than presumably waving their tiny arms at the oncoming doom. But if they did have a space program — and yes ...

Last week, Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but the numbers go up and down every day, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies. On Monday, March 3, Space ...

Later the space rock fluctuated again, this time to a figuratively and literally astronomical 1 in 59,000 chance for impact. In short, asteroid ... sort of the average background of being taken ...

And then it was 1.2%! Which soon jumped up to 3.1%, the highest NASA has ever recorded for a space object of its size. But what's an asteroid, I hear you ask? Let me show you. Well, our solar ...

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...