The space rock is hurtling toward the Earth at a zippy 8,478 miles per hour miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Planetary scientists have published a detailed follow-up on the debris from their historic 2022 asteroid impact experiment in outer space. What they found challenges their understanding of the ...

An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18. The video in the media player above is from a related report. It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our ...

Stargazers could be treated to a dazzling display at the end of May thanks to the remains of a shattered comet. The possible meteor shower, called the tau Heruclid, is forecast to peak on the night of ...

See live views of the asteroid via the Virtual Telescope Project. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You can watch a big asteroid ...

The Geminid meteor shower lights up the night sky each December, and it will be at its most visible Tuesday overnight into Wednesday morning, according to NASA. The Geminid meteors become active when ...

The Perseid meteor shower, one of the year's most popular celestial events, is approaching its peak. But when is the best time to watch the event? The Perseids are popular because they tend to produce ...

While humanity has determined how to mind-control beetles and extinguish fire with sound waves, it has yet to devise a surefooted plan for dealing with an asteroid collision, a procrastination that ...