Like meteors, space junk travels at vast speeds as it travels through the atmosphere and it begins burning up spectacularly.

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured asteroid 10199 Chariklo occult the star Gaia DR3 6873519665992128512. It was the ...

The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

On May 9, 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the first-ever asteroid sample return mission, Hayabusa. This ...

Our new study may offer an answer. Using seismic data from NASA’s InSight mission, we uncovered evidence that the seismic ...

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is known for its fast fireballs, which occur as Earth passes through the rubble left by ...

With up to 60 meteors per hour under perfect conditions during the peak night, the Eta Aquariids are considered a strong ...

A meteorite found in Antarctica in 2012 suggests Earth may have formed with the materials needed to make water, a new study ...

They add: "The asteroid's orbit around the Sun sees it safely pass Earth several times in just a few years before ...

The third major meteor shower of the year is about to hit its peak this week, sending a cascade of "shooting stars" streaking ...