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

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

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

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

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

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World-renowned Greek astrophysicist Stamatios Krimigis says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

NASA's Lucy probe will journey to an asteroid that has remained untouched for 150 million years, potentially revealing ...