Astronomers are keeping an eye on asteroid 2024 XU9. This 110-foot space rock will pass Earth on 14 December 2024.

A newly-discovered asteroid is set to enter Earth's atmosphere in just hours, Nasa has said. The space rock, named COWECP5, ...

In 2015, David Hole discovered a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite in Maryborough, Australia. Initially mistaking it for a gold ...

A small asteroid created a spectacular fireball over northeastern Siberia on Tuesday morning, as it entered Earth’s ...

Be wary of claims of alien life in samples from space, say researchers who found traces of Earthly bacteria in a particle of rock retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu 1. Matthew Genge at Imperial ...

It's not even the first meteorite to take a few years to make it to a museum. In a particularly amazing story ScienceAlert ...

The Lafayette meteorite is a glassy chunk of space rock about 2 inches (5 centimeters) long. It was found at Purdue University nearly a century ago, and no one knew who discovered it or where it ...

Astronomers previously thought that this rock might smack into our planet in 2028. Earth got a relatively close shave this morning (Dec. 4), as a sizable space rock zipped by just 1.4 million ...