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

Apophis is a peanut-shaped space rock spanning 1,230-foot (375 meters) across comparable to that of the Eiffel Tower. At this ...

NASA has issued an alert that an asteroid, TP17, is scheduled to skirt by Earth today at a distance of 2.8 million miles.

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

The Ramses mission would rendezvous with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its 2029 close approach to Earth.

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

A big asteroid known as 2024 RV50 is expected to safely make its closest approach to Earth on October 18, 2024. In terms of ...

Another eight per cent of the Earth meteorites can be traced to the Flora and Nysa asteroid families in the main asteroid belt, the research found. And about six per cent of the meteorites can be ...

From lunar water hunts to Mars sample returns, China's space program is embarking on groundbreaking missions across the solar ...

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

A rare double feature over the Philadelphia region as Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS dazzles in the western sky and the Hunter's ...

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