A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

An ancient asteroid impact in Australia is revealed in shards of glass created when the giant space rock collided with the ...

Astronomers are racing to study 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet whose strange behavior reveals new clues about how other ...

Scientists discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid that spawned near-Earth asteroid Ryugu more than a ...

Some asteroids hold more iron, nickel and cobalt than Earth's reserves, presenting options for off-planet construction, fuel ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Astronomers predict it will pass relatively close to four planets (but not Earth) and the Sun, then continue its cosmic ...

Our planet has apparently had a small companion that went undetected for decades. What took so long to find it and why was it ...

Several well-known meteorite discoveries are still a mystery. Avi Loeb’s interpretation of some meteorite debris possibly being of alien origin is controversial, because peer‑reviewed analyses point ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...