A brilliant fireball lit up the night sky over some southern states in the United States this weekend, but that was no meteor ...

Experts uncovered a giant crater this year in China which was possibly formed after an asteroid landed on Earth several ...

Videos quickly surfaced Saturday night when the fiery bolt of light appeared, with many wondering if it was a meteor shower ...

The Quadrantids meteor shower will have its most vibrant display tonight into early Friday morning, with meteors emanating from the northeast in the direction of the Big Dipper. Partly to mostly ...

"It lit up the sky like it was daylight," reported Andrew B. through the AMS Report a Fireball submission form. Other ...

The Geminids are an astronomical highlight of the year, creating a spectacular show of shooting stars every December. Scientists are now starting to understand where they came from.

An asteroid approximately the size of two and a half chinchillas impacted the Earth above Siberia, Russia, on Tuesday, according to the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. Incoming!☄️A small ...

2024 was studded with record-setting scientific discoveries. From tracing the origins of glow-in-the-dark animals to developing the world’s fastest microscope, these superlative feats captured our ...

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.

That event might have been a "low speed explosion", says Cukier. "As asteroids get close to the Sun, they get hot, and that causes thermal stress inside the asteroid. If they get too hot ...