A rock no bigger than a golf ball could have caused the recent lunar impact, according to the observatory. At an ultra-high ...

You can tune in to see live views of the Geminid meteor shower as it peaks overnight on Dec. 13-14, thanks to a free ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

What happens when two carbon-rich space rocks slam into each other? You'd expect to see clear signs of impact in the ensuing meteorites — but for over 30 years, scientists have puzzled over why ...

The Geminids meteor shower has proven to reliably produce around 120 meteors per hour in a dark sky, and many of them are ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

With 3I/ATLAS days away from making its closest approach to Earth, agencies worldwide are conducting the largest and most ...

On Dec. 13, 2012, a Chinese spacecraft flew by the asteroid Toutatis. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

The most promising clues are not in speculative business plans but in ancient space rocks themselves, whose chemistry and ...

Imagine sipping your coffee when suddenly – BOOM! A sonic tremor rattles your home. That’s exactly what happened to one McDonough resident when a meteorite the size of a cherry tomato punched through ...

Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...