Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft specifically ...

Just after 7pm on February 26th, 2025, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted into space from its launch spot at Cape Canaveral. These launches are fairly standard procedure now, with over 300 having been ...

So far, only government space agencies from the United States and Japan have brought minuscule samples from asteroids back to Earth at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. To realize its ...

"Asteroids come in all sizes," says Michael Küppers, a planetary scientist for the European Space Agency (ESA). "The really big ones, like the 10km (6.21 mile) [wide] or so asteroid that we think ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

Later, it sees opportunities to contribute to further work to extract rare metals and other materials from asteroids, and contribute to the development of a wider space manufacturing ecosystem ...