For a few weeks in January and February this year, asteroid 2024 YR4 had us all worried. Shortly after it was discovered, ...

Nasa has updated its assessment of asteroid 2024 YR4, revealing an increased chance of lunar impact. The space agency now ...

YR4 won't hit Earth, but scientists now estimate a 4% chance it could strike the Moon, possibly affecting space missions.

NASA is about to begin a massive hunt for hidden asteroids, and may uncover city-destroying space rocks we’ve missed.

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

A mysterious "mudball" meteorite exploded in the skies above Costa Rica in 2019, scattering rare, water-rich rocks across the ...

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published ...

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