As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims look at how close we really are extracting rare minerals from the many celestial bodies floating above us ...

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

The American Meteor Society adds that the Lyrids usually lack persistent trains but can produce "fireballs." A fireball "is ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Rosie O'Donnell and Daniel O'Donnell head the guest list on tonight's Late Late, Comic Releief returns to the Beeb with a ...

Aging aircraft, fewer platforms and a lack of replacements for retired systems has impacted the US Air Force’s lethality and ...

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

An Australian metal detectorist named David Hole made an extraordinary discovery that intrigued scientists and captivated the public. Years after unearthing an unusual rock, David Hole found with the ...

In Australia, a team of researchers has identified the oldest meteorite impact crater ever discovered. This site, located in the Pilbara region, dates back 3.5 billion years, pushing the ...

A once-in-a-lifetime experience; nowhere else in Europe can visitors touch a fragment of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...