An autumn meteor shower yearly responsible for “Halloween fireballs” may pose a small impact threat to Earth. What is the ...

Debris from Comet Encke creates two annual meteor showers, but it might also pose a small risk to Earth. Scientists are ...

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

A Japanese astronomer captured two lunar impact flashes — caused by meteor strikes on the moon — just two days apart on video ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

A giant asteroid impact crater, sitting 300 meters beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor, has been confirmed as the result of a ...

Some 400 million years ago, a meteor more than 2 miles wide slammed into what is now the Charlevoix region of Quebec, Canada, ...

A study has found evidence of an asteroid impact that shook Australia 11 million years ago. There are glass beads strewn ...

We’re always a wee bit suspicious about articles that announce some sort of “World’s first” accomplishment. With a couple of ...

Strange glassy blobs strewn across the Australian desert are evidence of an ancient meteorite impact that scientists hadn't ...

Two bright meteors were caught slamming into the moon on Thursday (Oct. 30) and Saturday (Nov. 1), by Japanese astronomer ...