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

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

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

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

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 ...

For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

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For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

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