The bright Perseids are perhaps the most popular meteor shower of the year. But if the last-quarter moon that will appear during the shower this year is especially bright, they'll be washed out.
One of the most popular meteor showers will soon unleash shooting stars across the night sky! The Perseids peak on the night of Aug. 11-12, boasting up to 75 meteors per hour. Here's what you need to ...
NEW YORK - An asteroid wider than two professional football fields is set to fly safely past Earth on Sept. 14, according to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. The space rock, known as ...
An asteroid the size of a house passed the Earth Wednesday, eventually reaching a distance closer to Earth than the moon, according to AccuWeather. The newly discovered Asteroid 2020 GH2 passed within ...
Earth may get a new "mini-moon" soon. But it's probably just an old rocket booster from 1966. The mysterious extraterrestrial object once called "asteroid 2020 SO" now appears to be an old rocket from ...
The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
Just last year NASA completed its DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test. It was an unprecedented endeavor ...