According to NASA, the Leonids this year were particularly swift, hurtling at 44 miles per second, and are named for their apparent radiant point in the constellation Leo. Every 33 years or so, the ...

“Impact flashes on the moon are very common,” University of Colorado Boulder astrophysical and planetary sciences professor ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

The history of human innovation and artistic expression isn’t as straightforward as you think. Craftspeople have created ...

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

At 900 meters, the giant crater in southern China is three times larger than the previous Holocene recorder holder.

New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.

While the feds idled, an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS was barnstorming the solar system, at a speed that reached 153 ...

NASA released images of an interstellar comet flying past Mars, and scientists expressed doubt about the possibility that it ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovers shiny metallic rock on Mars that could be a meteorite from an ancient asteroid, ...

The unusual comet—which is to pass Earth again in the coming weeks—is only the third known object to visit us from outside ...

A beloved Christmas tree tradition is returning to Manhattan for the holiday season next week. No, it’s not the towering ...