An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.

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

Dante's description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks of an impact, forming a ...

Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...

An ancient impact may have scattered material from deep inside the moon toward NASA's planned Artemis landing sites near the ...

Newly spotted asteroid 2026 JH2, which could be up to 115 feet wide, will fly past Earth closer than some satellites on ...

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

MIDLAND, Texas — You may have seen posts circulating on social media claiming an asteroid or meteor struck near Midland and Ector County early Sunday morning. According to the posts, videos ...

Stargazers will have a chance to witness the first major meteor shower in more than three months when the Lyrids reach their peak on the night of April 21 and into the early morning of April 22.

The Lyrids meteor shower is underway and will soon peak. The meteor shower is known to produce around 10 to 20 meteors, or shooting stars, for the three nights around its peak, when stargazers will be ...

After a more than three-month meteor shower drought, you can finally look to the skies again for a cosmic display. The Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak, or reach its maximum activity, on ...

The annual Lyrid meteor shower peaks on Wednesday, offering stargazers the chance to see as many as 10-20 shooting stars streak across the sky. NASA/JSC/D. Pettit See more of our coverage in your ...