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

Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon seven years from now.

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

The asteroid struck with more force than a billion nuclear bombs. Fires ignited across continents. Tsunamis tore across ...

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

The Geminids tend to be the strongest meteor shower of the year. It is also the one major shower that provides good activity ...

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

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

The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

Although the Ursids are active from Dec. 13 through Dec. 26, the peak night coincides with the winter solstice, which occurs at 10:03 a.m. EST on Dec. 21. Though the two events are totally unrelated, ...