More than 120 seismometers detected sonic booms from space debris and enabled its fall to be tracked with unprecedented ...

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 (13 m). Credit: Space.com | animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve ...

For Florida rocket launches, there's typically a rumble that follows after liftoff. Sometimes windows shake in areas closest ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

You can tell Starlink satellites from meteors by speed, brightness, color, movement pattern, and how long the object stays ...

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

Auroras, shimmering bands of light that shoot through the night sky near the Earth’s poles, can follow patterns known as arcs ...

Now, the planets of Tau Andromeda are overgrown with wildlife, nature reclaiming the skyscrapers of a once-advanced ...

Fireballs are bright meteors and can be yellow, blue, red, green and sometimes violet. Fast-moving meteors are frequently ...

David Blair receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is a member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery and is director of the Einstein-First education ...

In 2029, a large near-Earth asteroid will pass closer to Earth than many operational satellites. While it poses no impact risk, the flyby offers a rare opportunity to study how gravity affects an ...