The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is nearly the size of a football field, now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in ...
A spectacular light show over Florida’s skies left many believing they had witnessed a meteor shower, but in reality, it was ...
T he British Royal Navy has carried out flight tests of the F-35B Lightning fighter jet armed with the nation’s latest air-to ...
YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.
The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.
One of the most recent and best-preserved craters on Earth is the 1.2 km in diameter Meteor Crater in Arizona, which ...
Since the “Saharan Gold Rush” in the 1990s, one researcher has been fighting for the North African country’s contributions to science to be recognized.
MANILA, Philippines — After over a year of wooing a German astronomer, a group of Filipino space enthusiasts has successfully brought back two Philippine meteorites they plan to donate to the ...
You can sign up for Launchpad for free here. There is no better place to start explaining what so fascinates me about meteorites than Winston Churchill’s fish pond. Churchill lived for many ...
Meteorites had, of course, been noted before. The ancient Greeks wrote of stones falling from the sky. An iron dagger found in Tutankhamun’s tomb was, recent research shows, fashioned from a ...