While asteroid mining is already being undertaken, the first mission didn't exactly go off without a hitch. Here's what ...

"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," Lewis told New Scientist.

or L-type (low-iron chondrites) stony asteroid. The asteroid made a close pass of Earth two days before it was discovered. The Dec. 25 Christmas Day pass saw 2024 YR4 come within 828,800 km of our ...

In southern Poland, iron objects made from a single meteorite were uncovered by archaeologists. The artifacts were discovered during excavations at two early Iron Age cemeteries, Częstochowa ...

The rest are mostly S-type or silicaceous – a mix of metal and silicate crystals – or metallic or M-type asteroids, which contain predominantly iron and nickel. One asteroid scientists are ...

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 ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue." Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ...

One of these sits in the Treasures gallery. This 635-kilogramme iron meteorite was once part of a larger meteorite that fell in Campo del Cielo (named by the Spanish and translates as 'Field of Heaven ...

Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future.