Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the ...

Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of ...

Astronomer Patrick M. Shober found a new meteor shower—and it comes from an asteroid getting broken down by the Sun.

The Lyrids run through April 25, with peak activity in the late-April overnight. Head outside after midnight and look toward ...

Doomsday meteors get a bad rap. For decades, these poor rocks have been tarnished in the press and demonized in major ...

A large 7-ton meteor struck near the Cleveland, Ohio, area, on March 17, 2026, after fragmenting in the air, according to ...

Maini, of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs, is primed and ready should a planetary strike occur – and just over 12 months ago, she thought it might ...

Video shared with News 12 from Forked River shows a small fireball quickly streaking through the sky.

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

It was to swoop past 2022 OB5, a rocky asteroid island adrift in a starry sea, and take photographs of it. Odin successfully left its ride, headed into space—and vanished. The asteroid scout had ...

Scientists estimate there are thousands of asteroids large enough to destroy a city near Earth. NASA is sending a telescope ...

There are more moon missions, new ultra-powerful telescopes, groundbreaking probes and more reasons to keep your eyes on the ...