An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.

An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will fly by Earth, according to the European Space Agency.

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

Dante's description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks of an impact, forming a ...

Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...

An ancient impact may have scattered material from deep inside the moon toward NASA's planned Artemis landing sites near the ...

MIDLAND, Texas — You may have seen posts circulating on social media claiming an asteroid or meteor struck near Midland and Ector County early Sunday morning. According to the posts, videos ...

A newly discovered meteor stream may be the smoking gun of an asteroid slowly disintegrating under the Sun’s intense heat.

Newly spotted asteroid 2026 JH2, which could be up to 115 feet wide, will fly past Earth closer than some satellites on ...

Two meteor showers, the Southern delta Aquarids and the alpha Capricornids, will peak simultaneously from July 30-31. The Perseids, considered the best meteor shower of the year, will peak between ...

Many New Yorkers likely looked up to the sky this week in hopes of seeing the flashing lights of meteors as the Lyrids shower reached its most active state of 2026. The Lyrids meteor shower, which ...

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes on Feb. 23, 2023. The crater created from the impact is “thought to be a dozen meters in ...