Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

Your first major opportunity to spot shooting stars and bright fireballs in 2026 arrives overnight tonight with the peak of ...

It is popularly believed that around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs ...

2025 MN45 isn't the overall spin-rate record holder. Astronomers have found a number of small asteroids — those just a few ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower reaches its peak tonight, but the Wolf Moon will significantly outshine the display. Only the ...

According to the team's results, mining undifferentiated asteroids (believed to be the progenitor of chondritic meteorites) ...

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

January brings a bright supermoon and a fast meteor shower at the same time. Here is what to watch for and how to enjoy the ...

A surprising discovery has been made by the Planetary Defense Team that detected the 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid whose path ...

There will be five supermoons in 2026 - the first to arrive is the Wolf Moon, which appears this weekend, coinciding with a ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

The Quadrantids will put on a show in the night sky this weekend as one of the biggest displays in the meteor shower calendar ...