On the final day of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago, Earth was teeming with a dazzling variety of dinosaurs.

A space rock the size of a big stadium will pass closer to Earth than some of our own satellites on the evening of April 13, ...

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Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the ...

A rare stargazing spectacle will unfold on Friday, April 13, 2029, as the asteroid Apophis passes closer than satellites over ...

A NASA researcher in planetary sciences explains how he discovered a new meteor shower linked to a disintegrating asteroid.

Doomsday meteors get a bad rap. For decades, these poor rocks have been tarnished in the press and demonized in major ...

Astronomer Patrick M. Shober found a new meteor shower—and it comes from an asteroid getting broken down by the Sun.

A newly identified meteor shower reveals that intense heat is fragmenting a previously unknown asteroid as it passes too ...

Spread the loveOn April 9, 2026, NASA successfully tracked a house-sized asteroid known as 2026 GD, which made a close approach to Earth, passing at a distance of approximately 156,000 miles. This ...

This understanding may help our planet to save life itself.

Recent estimates presented by planetary defence experts suggest that more than 15,000 of the roughly 25,000 asteroids capable ...