Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and pallasites. Studying meteors provides ...

We may have had a near-miss, but asteroids can pass by the Earth undetected.

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

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

An ancient impact structure in remote northern Australia was recently spotted by one of NASA's Earth-observing satellite ...

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

NASA has issued an alert about a massive asteroid approaching Earth this week. The US space agency has identified Asteroid ...

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

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

The worldwide tech leading Dutch firm, cosine, is making a big impact in space exploration. The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission by providing a ...

That was a test of whether a dangerous space rock bound for Earth could be deflected in a similar manner. The experiment ...

A scientists has warned that a destructive asteroid could be heading towards Earth and we don't have the technology to detect ...