Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

Of the three November meteor showers, Leonids should be the most active. It is fed by the Tempel-Tuttle Comet, which can ...

Researchers have determined the precise date when an asteroid could potentially impact Earth, carrying with it a power ...

October's supermoon was the first of three consecutive supermoons that will close out 2025. November's supermoon will be the closest one to Earth of the three so the view should be great, if clouds ...

The Beaver Moon is almost here. The big, bright supermoon will rise over Mississippi soon. What you need to know to see it, ...

The Leonids once produced "one of the greatest meteor storms in living memory. Rates were as high as thousands of meteors per minute during a 15-minute span" on Nov. 17, 1966." ...

What if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck Earth today? This video explores the potential consequences of such an ...

Stargazers using telescopes should be able to see the object in the predawn sky beginning Nov. 11, according to EarthSky.

These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

Dinosaurs appear to have been thriving before a giant asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, paleontologists working in ...