A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

The small meteor lit up the night sky on Thursday and may have landed as meteorites across a vast area of the west Highlands.

NASA has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

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Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

The remnants of a meteor that lit up British skies on Thursday may have landed on Ben Nevis, the UK’s highest mountain. The ...

A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

Scientists at ESA have spotted A11pl3Z, a possible interstellar object near Jupiter. Though it’s heading towards Earth, ...