A small asteroid discovered just eight days ago is set to fly past Earth tonight at a distance of roughly 57,000 miles, well ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world—possibly as big as the moon or even Mars—orbited our sun before crashing ...

The Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known natural piece of iron on Earth, weighing about 60 metric tons today. By simple logic and physics, a metal object that massive should have smashed ...

The asteroid was discovered on May 10 by astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based in Arizona’s ...

The meteorite​ that caused a sonic boom heard throughout Massachusetts on Saturday ​landed "right in the middle of Cape Cod ...

An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.

The livestream will begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT on May 18, bringing near real time views of the asteroid from robotic telescopes ...

A viral video of a meteor darting past an erupting Philippine volcano sent the internet into an alien frenzy after an unknown ...