The Moon, like the Earth, has been bombarded by asteroids and comets since its formation ... soil and have been fused together by the heat and pressure involved in an impact event. James Darling, ...

NASA's venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth ...

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the asteroid.

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

Stonehenge’s central stone, known as the Altar Stone, may have had Scottish and not Welsh origins, researchers say. The finding suggests that Late Neolithic ...

When is the Taurid meteor shower? The South taurids will be best seen this weekend in dark moonless skies, with a high chance ...

Find out how comets are connected to some of our favorite annual astronomy events with November's Night Sky Notes!

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Friday, Nov. 1, with sky charts, before it disappears.

The so-called "Halloween comet" vaporized as it flew within 1 million miles of the sun on Monday, its destruction captured by ...

Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it's easy to understand why. They first appear as faint smudges of ...

The answers, Lauretta believed, could be found within asteroids and comets—debris left over from the solar ... What’s more, Bennu stood a small but nonzero chance of impacting Earth in the 22nd ...

Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) make a death dive into the sun in this eerie footage from the Solar and Heliospheric ...