The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

A potentially hazardous asteroid is anticipated to pass close to Earth in 2029. Asteroid 99942 Apophis – named after the Egyptian deity of chaos, darkness and fire – is expected to safely pass about ...

Samples of Ryugu returned to Earth by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft show that the asteroid bears the scars of a recent bombardment ...

A meteor cluster reveals an asteroid disintegrating near the Sun. These observations help uncover hidden asteroids and ...

MIDLAND, Texas — You may have seen posts circulating on social media claiming an asteroid or meteor struck near Midland and Ector County early Sunday morning. According to the posts, videos ...

A comet named 3I/ATLAS was first discovered on July 1, 2025, and is located about 420 million miles away from Earth, ...

Day 2 begins Friday night with the San Francisco 49ers owning the first selection of Round 2. It was originally the New York ...

The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, caused by Halley's Comet debris, is active now and peaks May 5-6, offering a celestial show ...

The Lyrid meteor shower peaks in the early hours of April 22, offering up a possible feast of impressive shooting stars and ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and ...

Sky-gazers will be able to see the oldest meteor shower, the Lyrids, on Tuesday night. Here’s where and how to watch them.

The frequency of fireballs in our planet’s skies seemed to grow in recent months. NASA and other meteor experts can’t agree ...