COLORADO SPRINGS–Thirteen years ago a 20-m asteroid streaked without warning into Earth’s atmosphere before exploding over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,500 people and causing widespread ...

A tremendous explosion rocked the Tunguska region in Siberia in the early morning hours of June 30, 1908. The Tunguska ...

The dynamic exoplanet system TOI-201 is changing so rapidly that astronomers say it may look extremely different to us in two ...

A space rock the size of a big stadium will pass closer to Earth than some of our own satellites on the evening of April 13, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the early days of earth, it was dangerous, hostile place to be. Luckily, by the time humans came around, things settled down a ...

Another meteor was spotted streaking across the sky above parts of the eastern United States for over 100 miles, leading multiple cities and states to see the fireball on April 7. The meteor passed ...

The asteroid Ryugu is seen by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft from a distance of 6 kilometers. Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of ...

The asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk injured around 1,500 people, damaged thousands of buildings, and exposed an uncomfortable truth: scientists completely missed it, even as they were ...

In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft, during a mission known as DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), intentionally impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos to modify its trajectory. Photo courtesy ...

A team of US astronomers has carried out one of the deepest analyses to date of a sample from the asteroid Bennu, revealing new details about how water and organic material interacted during the ...

There could be a catastrophic threat lurking in space right now. We might not know until it’s too late. Near Earth, there are likely more than 25,000 asteroids large enough to level a city, according ...