On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' for whom the question is not if but when ...

Accounting for climate change is in its infancy – and a UNSW academic says getting it right requires new ways of thinking.In ...

The object would be New Zealand’s 11th documented meteorite, if found. “Orbital data indicates the rock originated from the asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, Fireballs ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. When the spacecraft completed its long journey home ...

Wellington Blaze opening batter Rebecca Burns joined D'Arcy Waldegrave to preview their Super Smash elimination final against the Northern Brave.

South Islanders saw a fireball break through the atmosphere near Wānaka overnight with a loud sonic boom. The cause was a falling meteorite which became a fireball and raced above Queenstown around ...

Fireballs Aotearoa, a group interested in meteorites, said a sonic boom was widely reported as the object came in overhead.

Photo: Vendetta Films It is billed as ‘New Zealand’s last war’. It took place in 1979 and lasted just three minutes, but was considered a pivotal race relations moment for the country. A landmark ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is ...

But the new research found that evaporated water on Bennu’s parent asteroid left behind “the raw ingredients of life”, said Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National ...

Picture NASA For Martin George col for The Mercury “We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life” study co-lead author Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s ...