"Spectacular" and "impressive" were some of the words used to describe a fireball that flashed across the night sky yesterday ...

The bright lights are believed to have been caused by the Leonid meteor shower, which takes place every year in November, with peak activity in the middle of the month.

This week, NASA’s has been busy tracking a trio of sizable asteroids hurtling past Earth’s orbit, one traveling as close as ...

The UAE’s Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt will travel more than five billion kilometres and study seven asteroids before attempting a landing on the final target ...

This is the moment a bright fireball lit up the night sky above a city before it burned up and disappeared into the atmosphere. The rare astronomical phenomenon was observed over Moscow, Russia, at ...

Some people were treated to an astral spectacle late Wednesday night, as a "fireball meteor" flashed across the night sky in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin. WCCO viewer Diane Lloyd captured footage ...

An apparent meteor lit up the sky – and social media – in Flagler Beach, Monday, Oct. 27, as it blazed through the sky. Resident Jen Efford told The News-Journal that she and her husband noticed posts ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...

Sky-gazers worldwide will see a brilliant celestial display this week as the Orionid meteor shower peppers the sky in bright trails of light. The meteor shower, which is occasionally known to produce ...

Earth has a near miss—twice—after two small asteroids seemingly passed alarmingly close to the planet, less than two days apart, one of them going completely unnoticed until hours after it had already ...