Events like this are extraordinarily uncommon, especially in a major city. Earth is constantly bombarded by material from ...

Historically planetary defense research has focused on deflecting asteroids by using momentum to nudge their cosmic course ...

Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have uncovered a surprisingly complex chemical landscape at the tiniest ...

Meteorite hunters are combing Ohio for fragments of a space rock that streaked across the sky earlier this week.

A subtle pattern hidden in spacecraft images has revealed that rocks are actively traveling between the asteroid Didymos and its small moon Dimorphos. This quiet exchange is described as “cosmic ...

The suspected meteorite landed in an upstairs bedroom of a Houston-area home. Ponderosa Fire Department. Many residents of ...

A meteorite that was barely longer than a standard baseball bat splintered off a meteor blazing over the Houston area on ...

The Betsa family joined dozens at River Styx Park hunting for meteorites after NASA identified the area as the likely landing ...

A meteorite hits a house in Germany after crossing Europe, surprising scientists and challenging detection systems.

The impactors that pummeled the Earth and moon nearly 4 billion years ago were primarily asteroids, a new study of lunar rocks collected by Apollo astronauts suggests. During a short stretch of time ...

Space is vast, mysterious, and full of surprises — but few celestial objects capture our imagination quite like asteroids. These rocky remnants from the early solar system have been drifting through ...

Residents in Texas reported an explosion in the sky on Saturday.