Astronomers were slow at spotting a small giraffe-sized asteroid that zoomed past our planet on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, ...

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

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.

Amateur sky watchers believe a meteorite fell to earth in northeast Michigan Sunday morning, Nov. 23, and many people have posted video online of the space debris streaking overhead.

2025 PN7 is a small, dim asteroid that appears to orbit Earth, according to EarthSky. Believed to be a piece of the moon that ...

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

“Impact flashes on the moon are very common,” University of Colorado Boulder astrophysical and planetary sciences professor Paul Hayne said. “In fact, they happen more or less every night, and it’s a ...

Scientists have discovered living microbes producing methane in the fractured rocks deep inside Sweden's Siljan impact crater ...

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University of Georgia researchers have dubbed the space rock the McDonough Meteorite in a nod to its namesake city, where it crash-landed on June 26 A meteorite that crashed through the roof of a home ...