An asteroid roughly the size of a small city may slam into the Moon in 2032, and if it does, the blast could hurl clouds of lunar rock into space and toward Earth. Scientists say the odds of a direct ...

The largest Martian meteorite ever found on Earth is being auctioned off later this month and could fetch up to $4 million. One of only 400 of its kind ever found, the hunk of red-hued space rock was ...

When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

Next weekend will be a great time to get away from city lights to enjoy the night sky and the annual Geminid meteor shower. Meteors are also known as falling, or shooting, stars because they appear to ...

A video captured on a vehicle's dashboard camera shows what's believed to be a meteor falling from the sky over Florida this week. In the video, which was taken by Drew McKinley and shared to social ...

Each December, Earth passes through the debris cloud left by the comet as sand-sized specks enter the earth’s atmosphere producing a spectacular show of “falling stars.” The peak nights of the 2025 ...

But if you look up at the sky between the late evening hours of Sunday night and early Monday morning, you may be privy to a ...

Skygazers, get ready for an active night sky this week and next. Following the supermoon last week, we've also got three annual meteor showers happening right now: the Northern Taurids, which peaks ...

Earth has a near miss—twice—after two small asteroids seemingly passed alarmingly close to the planet, less than two days apart, one of them going completely unnoticed until hours after it had already ...

Astronomically speaking this is the date and time of the Winter Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere and the Summer Solstice ...