“Impact flashes on the moon are very common,” University of Colorado Boulder astrophysical and planetary sciences professor Paul Hayne said. “In fact, they happen more or less every night, and it’s a ...

Asteroid 2025 VP1 is hurtling through space at more than 18,300 miles per hour, the space agency has reported.

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

A skyscraper-size, "potentially hazardous" asteroid is set to make a close approach to Earth this week — and you can see it zoom past for yourself, either by using a backyard telescope or via a free ...

Tonight's the night. Those with telescopes and clear skies have the chance to watch a very speedy asteroid cross a large swath of the southern sky during evening hours across much of the western ...

The Geminid meteor shower peaks overnight on Dec. 13 and Dec. 14. The Geminids are active between Dec. 4 to Dec. 20 each year ...

A faculty member from Mississippi State University has discovered a new asteroid, a first for the Magnolia State.

Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have found that it contains a remarkable mix of materials — some of which formed long before the sun even existed. Taken together, the findings, ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...