Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

WASHINGTON — Summer's most dazzling meteor shower, the Perseids, peaks early Wednesday. At the same time, Venus and Jupiter ...

The Perseid meteor shower hits its peak in activity for 2 nights this week, but will a nearly full moon spoil the show? How to watch “shooting stars” ...

The resources tucked away in asteroids promise to provide the building blocks of humanity's expansion into space. However, accessing those resources can prove tricky. There's the engineering challenge ...

Discover the 4.56-billion-year-old McDonough Meteorite, a rare stony meteorite that shook Georgia with a sonic boom, now ...

Scientists are on high alert as asteroid 2024 YR4, with a 4.3% chance of hitting the moon, could potentially cause significant damage to Earth's satellites and surface.

A meteorite that crashed into a Georgia home in June is older than the Earth itself, according to scientists who are studying the space rock. Onlookers in the Southeast were stunned when a fireball ...

A scientist says fragments of a meteorite that punched through a Georgia homeowner's roof after blazing across the sky in a fiery streak is older than the Earth itself.

These strange objects could explain how water arrived on Earth, but may also be a previously unrecognised threat to our ...

Plus: The August Full Sturgeon Moon shines, the colorful double star Albireo sparkles, and Mercury reappears in the sky this ...

While many may be focused on 2 Pallas’s trajectory across the night sky, August 10 also brings a planetary parade featuring ...