Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent ... These smaller fragments remain grouped together and are called asteroid families. By measuring the radioactive elements present ...

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

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Gotta Catch 'Em All — Pokémon Day is officially recognized annually on Feb. 27, the storied day that Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green video games were first introduced in Japan in 1996 to launch the ...

By Dean Murray Scientists say they have made a "shocking" discovery on Mars. NASA's Perseverance Science Team was "astonished ...

And that 100% of your DNA may come from outer space ... first pieces of evidence that space rocks are packed with organic compounds was the Murchison meteorite, which fell in Australia ...

As the story around asteroid 2024 YR4 shows, there is more good news in that we are getting better at detecting asteroids. Thanks to the coordination of the United Nations Office for Outer Space ...

Dean Hall sees Kerbal Space Program as one of the most inspiring games ever, and that's not just a personal opinion: It's the inspiration for his latest game, and he says that literal rocket ...

the space agency is gearing up for another project: a spacecraft targeting asteroids. A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling ...

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

IISc’s Aloke Kumar has led groundbreaking research around space habitation. In 2020, his lab developed ‘space bricks’ using ...