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 ...

Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and destructive than previously thought, according to new research. Unlike ...

Scientists had stumbled on the dusty debris from two cosmic crashes. Massive space rocks slammed together to create clouds of ...

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

Sources from Associated Press say the last major meteor shower of the year, known as the Ursids, peaks soon, bringing glowing ...

There may be no enterprise that lends itself so well to the camera as space travel. The universe is a riot of color and light ...

A pair of nascent planets have been caught smashing together around the nearby star Fomalhaut, and in doing so have solved the puzzle of its famous ‘planet’ ...

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

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...

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

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