Here’s how it works. A swarm of interplanetary dust, rocks, comets and asteroids thought to be responsible for two famous impacts here on Earth has been found to be not quite as menacing as ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

This tradition led to the whole class being called Trojan asteroids, although names of Trojan War characters are reserved for Jupiter’s trojans. Trojan asteroids remain gravitationally ...

Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions. Researchers from Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today, often causing scant damage but sometimes ...

A new study is investigating ways to closely examine the trajectories of well-documented asteroids to hopefully detect anomalies that could provide evidence of such a force. Although the study ...

There’s been a lot of interest around developing technologies for mining rare-earth metals from asteroids as they pass on by. But a new study published in the International Journal of ...

A study published in Nature has revealed that the mass extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago was likely influenced by multiple asteroid impacts, not just one. Researchers mapped an ...

New research has the answer. By studying the composition of meteorites that have landed over the years and the asteroids populating our solar system, astronomers have determined that about 70% of ...