Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and ...

A spaceship first sent up by Russia in 1972 could crash into Earth at 17,000mph next month, potentially hitting the UK ...

Scientists have finally cracked one of space’s most perplexing mysteries by uncovering why carbon-rich asteroids—common in space—almost never make it to Earth’s surface. The discovery could ...

Failed Soviet satellite hurtling towards Earth may hit like a meteorite, tracker warns - Space probe was designed for Venus ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research ...

2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...

Learn about the latest update on asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 3.8 percent chance to impact the Moon.

Ground-based telescopes from the International Asteroid Warning Network have ... view from Earth), and gain a better understanding of the violent history of the solar system. asteroids potentially ...

From observing asteroids with telescopes, scientists know that most asteroids have water-rich ... unless they're about to hit the Earth , and astronomers get lucky. But there is another way ...

From observing asteroids with telescopes, scientists know that most asteroids have water-rich ... unless they’re about to hit the Earth, and astronomers get lucky. But there is another way ...

Together these missions have let planetary scientists like me study pristine, fragile carbonaceous material from asteroids ... unless they’re about to hit the Earth, and astronomers get lucky.