The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Analysis of meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 suggests that we may have to alter our timeline of the early Solar System, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

Watch the waning gibbous moon, Saturn, and Neptune meet in the night sky around midnight on July 16. The trio will travel ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the asteroid belt, but now a meteorite from the outer solar system is rewritin ...

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 ...

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

No, it was a meteorite. For a few brief moments today, a bright fireball lit up the midnight skies above Scotland. The meteor ...

The probe's first encounter will be with the asteroid Eurybates in August 2027. According to NASA, Lucy will conduct four ...

The next waypoint on Psyche's voyage will be a flyby of Mars in May 2026. Officials expect Psyche to keep that date, which is critical for using Mars' gravity to slingshot the spacecraft deeper into ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so meteorites that come from the Moon and Mars. This is ...

A minuscule meteorite seems to be rewriting the history of our solar system. The 50-gram Northwest Africa 12264 has brought a new understanding of when and how rocky worlds came together. Inner ...