"Taurid meteors tend to be larger than other meteors and can survive for longer periods as they pass through Earth's ...

A vivid green fireball that exploded over the southern U.S. on Oct. 14 may have been a shard of the Comet 2P/Encke.

Three meteor showers are active over Michigan skies, with peaks approaching. And a pair of comets are joining the show.

The Orionid meteor shower, one of the most anticipated celestial events of the fall season, will reach its peak on the night of October 21 into the early hours of October 22. A new moon during this ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, currently aboard the International Space Station, captured footage of a meteor burning up in ...

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...

A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...

Companies are getting in on the ground floor of mining asteroids in space for precious minerals and important terrestrial ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...