To answer a question or ask a new one, email lastword@newscientist.com Between 50,000 and 100,000 tonnes of light gases such ...

Researchers were able to determine that the asteroid came from the inner Asteroid Belt, the region between Mars and Jupiter, ...

Occasionally, something that defies the laws of logic and probability hurtles towards the ground, and it can be downright ...

This summer, something surprising took place in a quiet Georgia neighborhood. A bright fireball suddenly streaked across the daylight sky, taking everyone by surprise. Soon after, there was a loud ...

It is now named asteroid 2023 CX1, marking the first cosmic object from discovery to destruction, and then to the collection of its meteorite fragments. The object was only detected a few hours before ...

A "mysterious" light spotted in the sky above New Brighton has got people talking online. A tiny white glow has been caught on video glistening in the skies over New Brighton on Sunday (September 21) ...

The UK Fireball Alliance is a collaboration of camera networks which monitors and tracks meteorites as they enter Britain’s ...

Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report published in Nature Astronomy by an international team ...

When you hear about a watch that incorporates fragments of meteorite — usually, but not always, in its dial — the maker will have sourced it from one of two space rocks: the 26 tonne Gibeon meteorite, ...

Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before they hit the ground. Every now and again, though, something larger gets ...

Amidst the skepticism, Bu Fan revealed the truth using drone footage, on-site extraction videos, sample donation certificates ...

FX‘s Alien: Earth is a thrilling, chilling delight. The new series from creator Noah Hawley imagines what would happen if one of the iconic Weyland-Yutani deep space research vessels from the Alien ...