New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.

NASA's Perseverance rover discovers shiny metallic rock on Mars that could be a meteorite from an ancient asteroid, ...

NASA's giant Mars Antenna failure hinders spacecraft communication and asteroid studies amid the federal government shutdown.

New clues from the day the dinosaurs died. A mysterious ancient human tooth. Primordial galaxies. See how the past year ...

After Bo Petterson's daughter Emily sustained a life-altering brain injury during a soccer game, the father-daughter duo ...

On October 30 and November 1, Daichi Fujii, an astronomy curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, used his telescope to capture pinprick-sized flashes on the shaded side of the moon. Were the ...

Morocco now produces more meteorite discoveries than anywhere on Earth, with some Martian and lunar fragments selling for millions of dollars.

In the arid hills of northwestern New Mexico, a discovery is reshaping one of the most enduring narratives in natural history: that dinosaurs were already on the brink when the asteroid arrived.

Cairo: When a fireball from space crashed into the rocky plains of southeast Morocco in September, Mohamed Benitjit topped up the credit on his mobile phone and packed a bag with a tiny magnet and a ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million years ago. The new 3D seismic data reveals astonishing details about the ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...