The Orionids put on a spectacular light show every fall and peak around mid-October. This year, that peak is expected to ...

The Orionid meteor shower 2024 reaches its peak in the pre-dawn hours on Monday, Oct. 21, but this year a bright moon could ...

The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...

There are eight named meteor showers left in 2024, with at least one meteor shower being active at all times. That means you have the chance of seeing a shooting star on any given night between ...

It may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but Earth's "mini-moon" is here to stay for a couple of months.

NASA plans to blast “planet killer” asteroids with a 1,000-strong army of spacecraft – or even a nuke. The space agency ...

The space rock, named 2016 JG38, after the year it was discovered, is classed by the US space agency as a "Near Earth Object" ...

Stormy weather has threatened to delay the launch of Europe's Hera spacecraft, which is scheduled to blast off on Monday, ...

The "Hera" asteroid defence mission is about to be launched. On Monday, the European Space Agency's (ESA) probe is due to lift off on board a Falcon 9 rocket towards the asteroid Dimorphos. Swiss ...

Scientists at the NASA Center for Near Earth Object Studies however suspect that 2024 PT5 may be a large chunk of rock ejected from the Moon’s surface after an asteroid impact long ago.