As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

NASA has warned that a massive asteroid named 2014 TN17 which almost twice the size of the Taj Mahal is approaching Earth at an incredible speed.

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

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

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

There are many home-grown problems on Earth, but there's still time to worry about bad things arriving from above. The most ...

But it has plans to change that. ON February 15, 2013, an asteroid scorched through the atmosphere above Russia - the largest meteor to reach Earth since 1908. It disintegrated about 30km above ...