The destructive power of asteroids is undeniable — just ask the dinosaurs. New research suggests a huge space rock that ...

"Asteroids are "bits of a planet that didn't happen" that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter – the Main Asteroid Belt.

Zinc in meteorites reveals Earth's essential volatiles came from unmelted asteroids, crucial for life. This insight may guide ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Earlier on September 4, an asteroid just one metre wide entered the atmosphere as a brilliant fireball. Named 2024 RW1, the ...

Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...

Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.

An international team of researchers has demonstrated that 70% of all known meteorite collisions with Earth have come from ...

NIU STEAM launch to the WNIJ studio, and they brought their telescopes, to answer if Earth really has two moons.

A large amount of pyrene, a carbon-rich molecule known as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, has been found in a distant ...

The source of Earth’s water is an enduring mystery that extends to exoplanets and the notion of habitability. In broad terms, ...