This year’s “Halloween fireballs” are stunning to watch, but scientists say they may carry a warning from space.

Debris from Comet Encke creates two annual meteor showers, but it might also pose a small risk to Earth. Scientists are ...

Every year, the Taurid meteor shower lights up the night sky from late October through early November. Sometimes called the ...

This artist’s concept shows a small meteoroid striking the surface of Earth’s moon. For a brief few weeks in early 2025, astronomers were worried about the asteroid 2024 YR4. Happily, follow-up ...

The S2 mega meteorite unleashed an ancient apocalypse on Earth unlike anything we could imagine, but did it also help life ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

The desert across southern Australia is positively strewn with tiny beads of impact glass called tektites. It's part of a ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

That killed T. rex? Berkeley team says it was it was a space impact after all. Feb. 7, 2013 — -- Go digging with dinosaur hunters and they will show you that the last of the Cretaceous beasts ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...