Initially, much uncertainty surrounded the flight path of the space rock known as 2024 YR4, a small asteroid that has ...

Scientists say 'moon is safe' as concerns of asteroid strike dismissed - Scientists give their verdict amid fears of an asteroid hitting the lunar surface ...

The fireball from space was spotted by a network of sky-watching cameras in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Germany.

A meteorite crashed into a home in the western city of Koblenz after streaking across the sky. The bright object was seen in several neighboring countries before it finally came to rest.

In an effort to explain how life started on Earth billions of years ago, some scientists have suggested that microbes — or ...

It's hard enough to see a meteorite strike on Earth: Most of the bits of space debris that survive entry into the atmosphere plunge into the ocean, which covers about 70 percent of the planet. So ...

It’s the first time that a celestial body’s orbit around the sun was deliberately changed. The asteroid that NASA’s Dart ...

A meteorite has crashed through the roof of a house after thousands observed a stunning fireball streak across the sky in ...

Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.

VANCOUVER — A meteor that NASA says soared across the night sky above Metro Vancouver at about 100 times the speed of sound set off a fireball, a sonic boom and an explosive response online.

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...