Every December, Earth plows through a dusty lane of debris in space, and the night becomes illuminated by streaks of meteors.

BEIJING -- An asteroid has been named after Qi Faren, a renowned Chinese space technology expert, according to the China ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

The Ursids peak Sunday night into Monday morning and will be visible until Dec. 26 from the Northern Hemisphere. Skygazers ...

Although the Ursids are active from Dec. 13 through Dec. 26, the peak night coincides with the winter solstice, which occurs at 10:03 a.m. EST on Dec. 21. Though the two events are totally unrelated, ...

A rock no bigger than a golf ball could have caused the recent lunar impact, according to the observatory. At an ultra-high speed, estimated at roughly 78,000 mph, the meteorite could have left a ...

Skygazers usually see five to 10 meteors per hour during the height and there's a possibility for outbursts of up to 25 ...

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of ...

The educator and broadcaster on the search for life beyond Earth, what we might gain from mining on the Moon — and how to divert a killer asteroid ...

Be on the lookout for the peak hours to watch the Ursid meteor shower this weekend. It's often overlooked because of the holiday, winter solstice ...

Scientists were hoping an object that smashed the windscreen of a self-driving car in October was a meteorite, but SA ...