A large meteor wowed onlookers in Sydney, Canberra and regional NSW as it streaked across the sky and combusted in a ball of orange light on Thursday night. The cosmic spectacle was reported over ...

Aussie stargazers were treated to a visual feast last night when a meteor lit up the sky across large parts of eastern ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft used Mars’ gravity to gain speed on its journey toward a strange metal-rich asteroid deep in the ...

The Virtual Telescope Project will let you watch Monday’s “extremely close encounter” with a blue whale-sized asteroid live.

Most of us have probably seen a shooting star, but our meteor knowledge likely stops there, with all the gaps filled by myths ...

An animal rescuer in England came to the rescue of a pony that somehow ended up completely stuck inside a large tractor tire.

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

A newly discovered near-Earth asteroid known as 2026 JH2 is set to make an unusually close flyby of Earth on May 18, ...

Dante’s vision of Hell may echo the physics of a massive asteroid strike, offering a new way to read the Inferno.

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

Traces of microorganisms were found in a crater in South Korea. Billions of years ago, they may have triggered the Great ...