The sparkling display of shooting stars will be at its peak between December 13 and December 14.

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The moon is pummeled by asteroids nearly every day, creating new craters constantly that can range from a few feet to many miles across. The asteroid impacts, when they’re large enough, create flashes ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is zipping towards our planet at more than 18,300 miles per hour, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The asteroid, known as ...

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." NEW YORK — The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City has opened a new exhibition that takes a multidisciplinary ...

The Pebble line of smartwatches is back. But in some ways it never really went away… because after Fitbit acquired Pebble in 2016 and stopped making Pebble-branded hardware, an independent team of ...

After a historically long wait for the winter season’s first snowfall in Boulder County’s lower elevations, people in Boulder and Longmont may see their first flakes since April on Friday. Both ...

New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought. The discovery adds complexity to Hayabusa2’s 2031 mission but also heightens ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about every six ...

Because of Earth’s weathering climate and shifting tectonics, impact craters regularly disappear from the Earth’s geologic record. Scientists in China found an impact crater that formed during the ...