International Asteroid Day is observed to help people understand how dangerous it could be if an asteroid ever hit the Earth.

Astronomers have spotted unusual molecular activity in the largest Oort Cloud comet, comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (C/2014 ...

Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project captured imagery of comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF). The comet's closest approach to ...

The brilliant flash, which was accompanied by a sonic boom that many mistook for an earthquake, resulted in hundreds of calls ...

A fireball, or a bright meteorite, was seen across the southeastern United States on Thursday and later exploded over Georgia ...

Recent observations have revealed carbon monoxide venting from the largest comet ever seen, providing clues about its origins ...

The next big space threat isn't to Earth. It's to the Moon.

YR4 may strike the moon in 2032, posing risks to satellites from lunar ejecta and possibly causing a brief meteor shower.

An interstellar meteor may have slammed into Earth. If confirmed, a fireball that careened through our atmosphere in 2014 will be only the second known visitor from beyond our solar system.

This asteroid is one of the most likely to hit Earth. Here’s what it means for our future. New ultraprecise measurements show that the asteroid Bennu has a higher chance than thought of ...