Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important ...

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Just a few smashups in the asteroid belt may account for 70 percent of Earth’s meteorites, limiting what’s known about our solar system’s history.

Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...

The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies called "planetesimals" in ...

The Copernicus Sentinel Expansion Missions are a major leap forward in Europe's Earth observation capabilities. With the United Kingdom's re-entry to the EU's Copernicus program, funding has been ...

whose study was published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. “That made me think how would I see, in the geological record, if Earth had had a ring in the past as well.” Dr. Tomkins and ...

Science News // 2 days ago NASA says comet expected to put on show in Earth fly-by Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A comet just discovered last year by observers will whizz past Earth from 44 million miles away ...

NASA scientists calculated that Earth should have captured a "second ... community@space.com. Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World ...

Earth tends to pull asteroids into partial or full orbits around it regularly before they are flung back out into space. Artist’s impression of asteroid in space (NASA/JPL-Caltech) For instance ...

And you thought your commute was long. A comet that has been on an 81,000-year journey to fly by Earth is finally arriving — and should be visible in our skies in the upcoming days, according to ...