Early this year, a surprise space rock made headlines around the globe when the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn must have been particularly impressed by the November crop of new asteroids to have put the 18 space rocks that passed Earth within the orbit of the Moon into a wonderful ...

NASA has lost contact with MAVEN, a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than 11 years and one of only three ...

NASA has identified an asteroid roughly comparable in size to the Empire State Building, traveling through space at about ...

In 2018, Gwyneth Paltrow said, "I went to do a yoga class in LA recently, and the 22-year-old girl behind the counter was ...

Chris Burden, an artist famous both for his pioneering performance work in the 1970s and the intricate large-scale sculptures he made in the ensuing decades, died early Sunday morning at his home in ...

Such progress is to be celebrated but it has also come at a cost. Defending a small nation in a turbulent region is a serious ...

A woman in Okulovka, Russia, discovered a meteorite lodged in her roof after a bright green fireball was seen across several regions on October 27. Scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences ...

The Geminids are peaking this weekend. Amateurs and experts regard the dazzling celestial display as one of the year’s best meteor showers.

Amateur sky watchers believe a meteorite fell to earth in northeast Michigan Sunday morning, Nov. 23, and many people have posted video online of the space debris streaking overhead. Michigan Storm ...

Lightning strikes were just as important as meteorites in creating the perfect conditions for life to emerge on Earth, geologists say. The idea that there is life on other worlds is humbling and ...