Experts had warned that the comet may disintegrate as it passes the sun, before it has the chance to be visible to ...

The Taurid meteor shower could be visible starting around midnight on Tuesday, according to the American Meteorological ...

New research indicates that the Taurid swarm contains fewer large asteroids than anticipated, suggesting a lower threat level ...

A powerful solar outburst hit Earth Thursday, triggering a "severe" geomagnetic storm. Auroras could be visible as far south ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...

There, the materials that compose them volatilize and they develop the famous tails that sometimes make them visible from ...

Million of years in the past, a comet or an asteroid might have slammed into the Earth at an important time ... sediment was deposited — a space rock hit the planet,” Morgan Schaller, the ...

Controversially, he also claims that the rapid shift in climate patterns was caused by a collision with a comet in what he calls the 'Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis'. '12,800 years ago the Earth ...

The fastest Earth-directed CMEs can reach our planet ... it's not looking great for Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS. The comet may be hit later today or early Wednesday by the CME, which could ...

But planetary defense is real: while an increasingly advanced array of asteroid-hunting observatories diligently and ...

The brightest comet visible from Earth since 2006 ... Basically, as Cooke said, “downtown L.A. isn’t going to cut it.” Hit the beach: Since the asteroid will be visible on the low western ...