On a quiet night in, a meteorite sails through your window. How did it get here from space? What would it do to your body?

They appear to have been formed by 10 or more related space rocks including the comet 2P/Encke. One hypothesis is that Comet ...

"Picture yourself standing off the coast of Cape Cod, in a shelf of shallow water," said Nadja Drabon, an early Earth ...

Known as one of the top meteor showers of the autumn season because of its bright fireballs, the Leonids started to be ...

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...

The Taurid meteors will appear to originate from the constellation of Taurus, hence their name, but they will be visible from anywhere in the night sky. Taurus will rise in the eastern sky around ...

"We call a meteor a shooting star," he explained. "If anything makes it to the ground, it's called a meteorite." Most meteors ...

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

In 2022 its space agency, NASA, collided a semi-autonomous spacecraft (capable of self-steering as well as being remotely ...

When they enter Earth's atmosphere, they burn up, resulting in meteors. If a bigger piece falls to Earth, that becomes a ...

Every year from late September through early December, night sky observers will note a concentration of meteors that appear to radiate out from a point in the sky near the constellation Taurus. These ...