According to NASA, an asteroid is labelled "potentially hazardous" based on a combination of factors: its size and how close ...

The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

A rock no bigger than a golf ball could have caused the recent lunar impact, according to the observatory. At an ultra-high ...

The Ursids peak Sunday night into Monday morning and will be visible until Dec. 26 from the Northern Hemisphere. Skygazers ...

The Hubble Space Telescope and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer have captured fresh images of an interstellar comet as the ...

The space object, which was only recently discovered by scientists, will pass closest to Earth on Friday, December 19. Here's ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

Catch the brightest meteor shower of 2025 as the Geminids peak this weekend over California, from San Diego to Yreka. Where ...

It's one of the best annual meteor shows on Earth: the Geminids Meteor Shower. Observed since the late 19th century, the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A meteorite that plummeted into the roof and living ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

University of Georgia researchers have dubbed the space rock the McDonough Meteorite in a nod to its namesake city, where it crash-landed on June 26 A meteorite that crashed through the roof of a home ...