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

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

YR4, once referred to as a ‘city-killer’ with the potential to cause regional devastation and impact the climate, is no ...

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking out about, 2024 YR4? Initially predicted with a small but ...

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

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...

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.

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation triggered a fervid series of observations of the object—possibly as ...