The night sky across Houston briefly flashed Saturday night, followed by a sonic boom. It was caused by a meteor, which have become a surprisingly common occurrence recently — with one landing in Ohio ...

The Lyrids meteor shower is set to peak in Wisconsin on Earth Day, April 22. Here's how to best catch the light show.

Late in 2024, astronomers spotted a new near-Earth asteroid named 2024 YR4. By mid-2025, its improved orbit tracking raised an unusual possibility: the space rock could hit the Moon on Dec. 22, 2032, ...

If you manage to win the rock lottery and find a meteorite, you should avoid touching it with your bare hands, and there's a ...

MEDINA, Ohio (AP) — Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a ...

Variations in its crystal structure could help researchers better understand how lunar minerals form and evolve under extreme ...