The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. It's a reminder that Earth is part of a ...

Over time, the meteorites that land on Earth will be able to tell the story of events happening 200 million miles away in ...

Scientists have confirmed the existence of a "Doomsday swarm" of asteroids heading towards Earth. A team led by the ...

Because the experiment was done here on Earth, rather than in space, the team also had to ensure that the targets were in ...

There aren’t as many potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near Earth as previously thought, according to a new study.

The Taurid Meteoroid Stream, which is possibly responsible for the famous Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impacts, probably doesn't ...

2024 PT5, a Yale shuttle-sized Asteroid, will orbit Earth until late November. This new “mini-moon” is a wayward asteroid, a ...

NASA has announced a plan to protect our planet from potentially dangerous asteroids, often referred to as “planet killers.” ...

Scientists have revealed images of a second massive asteroid impact called Nadir Crater buried 300 meters under the ocean ...

Although a potential ‘planet killer’ catastrophe is not on NASA's radar for at least next 100 years, it already has a layout ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has alerted about three asteroids, 2024 SM4, 2024 TX5, and 2024 TA7, set to make close ...

Researchers found evidence from astroid craters that Earth may have had a ring, like Saturn, formed 466 million years ago.