The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A rare lunar meteorite found in Africa sheds new light on hidden volcanic processes that shaped the Moon long after its surface was thought to have cooled. A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...

The meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 7325 was initially proposed as a possible fragment of Mercury. However, its mineralogy includes chromium-rich pyroxene containing approximately 1% iron. This ...

If a huge asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming toward Earth that would threaten satellites and create a spectacular meteor shower, according ...

For a short time, the Moon blocked astronomers from tracking the asteroid clearly. The full moon’s brightness made it impossible to detect YR4’s faint signal.

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send debris hurtling towards our planet that could take out orbiting satellites ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, initially considered a potential threat to Earth, is now more likely to hit the moon in 2032. The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar ...