July offers stargazers exciting celestial events, from a meteor shower to the Summer Triangle and a viewing of the Andromeda ...

This is the story of a mysterious finding in New Hampshire, pieced together from the incident summary sheet and official ...

When a bright fireball streaked across the Alaska sky last spring, the usual tools scientists rely on to track such ...

The Moon is not the only natural object travelling through space alongside Earth. Several small asteroids travel around the Sun in near lockstep with our planet. And just like Earth, these space rocks ...

This year’s Asteroid Day has planned events worldwide and online. It acts as a reminder about advances in planetary defense.

Discover the 25 Space Events NASA Is Tracking Right Now, from Moon missions to deep space probes and future launches. Explore ...

While the shower is not known for producing many meteors, the meteors it does produce can be bright and travel slowly across ...

A rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Sun before being destroyed in a catastrophic collision. The discovery suggests some early planets formed from ...

Chemical signatures indicate the meteorite came from an early planet that met an untimely end during the formation of our solar system ...

Earth garnet has a glowing red hue. Mars garnet is a little... different. (Minakryn Ruslan/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Cracking open a meteorite that landed on Earth from Mars has yielded an unexpected ...