On October 7, the husband and wife observing team of Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre forwarded to Astronomy an image and an animation of the asteroid 2008 TC3 they received from amateur astronomer ...

The asteroid that crashed in northern Sudan last year was shaped like a loaf of walnut-raisin bread, according to astronomer Peter Scheirich and colleagues at Ondrejov Observatory and Charles ...

simulation of the melting and final breakup of asteroid 2008 TC3 When a small asteroid enters Earth’s atmosphere from space, its surface is brutally heated, causing melting and fragmenting. Therefore, ...

Forged at the dawn of the solar system, a fist-sized meteorite has ended its millions-mile journey, safe and secure, in the hands of Mountain View scientists. An analysis of the glass-crusted black ...

Click to viewWith all the hullabaloo about giant asteroids that could destroy us, we tend to forget the little guy. Luckily, NASA’s Catalina Sky Survey has it covered. Last Monday, CSS astronomers ...

Fortunately, it wasn’t large enough to require intervention by Bruce Willis, but asteroid 2008 TC3 is the first space rock to have been spotted before it crashed to Earth. It streaked into the skies ...

FAJARDO, Puerto Rico — Planetary scientists have reported a slew of new findings about the first asteroid ever spotted before pieces of it fell to Earth. The space rock contained a number of amino ...

They saw it coming, and they got what was coming to them. For the first time, researchers not only detected an asteroid in space, but also tracked its progress and then collected its debris after it ...

Meteorites that fell over Sudan in 2008 could have come from a space rock that was formed by a triple-asteroid pileup — a collision between three different types of space rocks, a new study finds.

Fortunately,it wasn't large enough to require intervention by Bruce Willis, but asteroid2008 TC3 is the first space rock to have been spotted before it crashed toEarth. It streaked into the skies over ...