To close this gap, NASA is building the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, a space telescope designed to detect asteroids using ...

Asteroid 2025 VP1 is hurtling through space at more than 18,300 miles per hour, the space agency has reported.

Texas skies lit up in surreal shades of red and pink Tuesday night as the northern lights made a rare appearance from the ...

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

A Japanese astronomer captured two lunar impact flashes — caused by meteor strikes on the moon — just two days apart on video ...

The end of the dinosaurs was clearly linked to an asteroid impact that brought the Cretaceous period to a close. But the details of their end have remained a matter of debate since the impact crater ...

Earth has one true moon, but there are also several asteroids known as quasi-moons that are in orbit with the sun. A newly discovered asteroid, 2025 PN7, is the seventh confirmed quasi-moon that ...

If you want to see one of the most bright, beautiful meteor showers of the year, you have two nights to see a cosmic light show. The Orionid meteor shower will peak this week, with shooting stars ...

The Orionid meteor shower, which is active now, is expected to peak in activity before the end of October. The Orionids produce anywhere from 10 to 20 meteors per hour at their peak, which can leave ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping theories of how Earth gained its oceans. A billion-year-old impact may have melted ...

Earth just had two close calls... and one went completely unnoticed. A small asteroid passed just 266 miles above Antarctica—closer than many satellites—before anyone even spotted it. Less than a day ...