A star passed near Earth and the Sun and jostled objects in the Oort Cloud 2.5 million years ago, sending them on a journey towards us. They are all long-period comets, meaning most of them would ...

Around 7:15 am on June 30 in 1908, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II, an object from space entered Earth's atmosphere over ...

That asteroid explosion over Tunguska was 1,000 times stronger than the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft revealed that a bizarre wobbling, peanut-shaped asteroid holds surprising clues about ancient water ...

The week ahead will see a meeting of two bright planets as Venus and Jupiter make for a dazzling display in the evening sky to the west after sunset. Over previous months and most notably during May, ...

NASA confirmed a meteor following a NOAA satellite's detection May 30 of a bright flash over Cape Cod Bay. Witness reports are essential in the detection of meteors and other events involving ...

Hold a carbonaceous chondrite and you’re holding a piece of the solar system’s infancy — a fragment of rock that predates Earth, assembled from dust when the planets were still taking shape.

4.6 billion years ago, the young Solar System was a swirling chaos of gas and dust — and nothing about planet formation was guaranteed. Yet somehow, out of that chaos, distinct rocky bodies took shape ...

An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will fly by Earth Monday, coming as close as 91,593 kilometers (56,913 miles), according to the European Space Agency — equivalent to about one ...

10:39, Sun, May 17, 2026 Updated: 10:42, Sun, May 17, 2026 A newly discovered asteroid will pass Earth at a distance of roughly 90,000 km (56,000 miles) tomorrow, in what astronomers describe as one ...