Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

Only 30%-50% of the remaining objects survive the atmospheric passage and become meteorites. The debris pieces whose orbits bring them closer to the Sun tend to be significantly more durable, making ...

A University of Tokyo team achieved the feat with an AI-based rock identification tool that was fed information on rocks on ...

However, asteroids there are unlikely to suddenly start moving into Earth ... The asteroid is likely fully solid, and not a rubble pile like the large asteroids Bennu and Ryugu.

The type of meteorites that could have been crucial to the origins of life are very rare, but the asteroids they come from ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, ...