A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

A conveyor belt more than 40 miles long runs from tiny Kermit, Texas, across state borders into Lea County, New Mexico.

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

Astronomers have uncovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This staggering ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...

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Like Donaldjohanson, Dinkinesh and Selam are also inhabitants of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ... when Donaldjohanson will appear large enough in Lucy's sky to begin to resolve ...

It is estimated that ~25 million meteoroids, micrometeoroids, and other space debris enter Earth’s atmosphere each day, and this 0material is mostly vaporised i ...

A so-called "city killer" asteroid scientists have been monitoring after discovering it had a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032 "no longer poses a significant threat," NASA said in its latest ...