In 1920, however, a farmer in the African nation of Namibia, then part of British-controlled South Africa, made an ...

A new study suggests a massive meteorite impact 3.26 billion years ago, far larger than the dinosaur killer, may have acted ...

After leaving Earth, Tianwen-2 will reach Kamo‘oalewa by July 2026. This tiny, elongated asteroid likely spans no more than ...

Not long ago, the idea of mining in space sounded like something out of a sci-fi novel. But today, it’s a field that ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million near-Earth objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...

Among the rocks and marine fossils, scientists have found fossilized pollen from the Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene periods that reflects changes in the surrounding ecosystems. The pollen reveals ...

A tower block has burst into flames amid reports of an 'explosion' at the building, with emergency crews now battling to quell the blaze. A huge plume of thick black smoke can be seen billowing into ...

From gravel-size meteoroids to mountain-size asteroids and even visitors from other star systems, space is packed with curiosities that help scientists decode how the Solar System formed and where it ...

One of three types of asteroids, M-types are rich in nickel, iron, and Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) like platinum and iridium. Both metal types could prove extremely lucrative for asteroid miners ...

Even today, asteroids collide to create debris fields within these asteroid families, called clusters. “We now see that 12 of the iron-rich ordinary chondrite meteorites (H chondrites) originated from ...

Archaeologists in Poland uncovered 26 iron objects made from a single meteorite. The artifacts, discovered during excavations at two early Iron Age cemeteries—Częstochowa-Raków and ...

“That will help us determine what we need to do about it, because if it’s a stony asteroid, that’s very different from a high proportion of iron-metal asteroid,” says Lewis. An iron-rich ...