The brilliant flash, which was accompanied by a sonic boom that many mistook for an earthquake, resulted in hundreds of calls ...

The inner solar system is a lot calmer than it was 4 billion years ago, during what’s known as the heavy bombardment period.

If you want to know about Hera, a satellite hurtling through deep space toward two asteroids, you can just ask it. “My mission is to study the aftermath of NASA’s DART impact on the asteroid Dimorphos ...

Fireballs fall on the Earth every day—but the one that just streaked across the southeastern U.S. this week was unlike the ...

According to NASA’s Center for NEO Studies, there are over 36,000 Near Earth Asteroids discovered. The Tunguska asteroid event in Siberia, Russian Federation, on 30 June 1908, was the Earth's ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

Astronomers are making a surprising breakthrough in the study of Venus, as new simulations suggest there may be a hidden ...

The remains of more than 160 deceased people reached orbit yesterday on a spacecraft that hitched a ride on a SpaceX rocket.

The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, may be visible in as many as 15 northern states between Tuesday night ...

Scientists unveiled the first images from what they are calling “the greatest astronomical discovery machine ever built," and ...

Only one of the known Venus co-orbital asteroids follows a nearly circular orbit; the others move on more elongated paths ...

Stargazers can see the universe like never before when the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils its first images from the ...