This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

Meteor showers are caused by Earth passing through streams of dust, rocks, metal, and ice, resulting in brilliant displays of ...

In Australia, scientists have identified the oldest known meteorite impact crater on Earth, a discovery that could greatly reshape the understanding of the planet’s formation and the origins of life.

Nearly 48 hours after two stones fell from the sky in the Khalwat-Nimgaon village of Beed's Wadwani taluka, scientists desc.

A young man shared how a meteorite shocked the people of the Eastern Cape in Jeffrey’s Bay as it hit the ocean. Residents in ...

If a 10-kilometer comet or asteroid struck the Earth, it “would cause way more destruction than even an all-out nuclear war, releasing in an instant an energy much greater than the sum total of ...

There are countless numbers of asteroids and an unknown number of comets throughout our solar system. Most of these objects date back to the very beginnings of our solar system, around 4.5 billion ...

SPACE is a deadly place – and we’re all living at its mercy on a little blue rock. Thankfully we know that asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

Discovered on April 5, 2024 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), it is a nonperiodic comet that's traveling on an orbit that won't bring it back to the sun's neighborhood ...

Thankfully we know that asteroid 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into us after all, but that's not the only space threat we need to worry about. We're in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4 – but that's ...