Each December, the Geminids meteor shower paints the sky with spectacular streaks of light. The source of this stunning ...

A mysterious interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS is about to make its closest approach to Earth in December 2025. Here's ...

Life on Earth may have begun with a gift from a comet. Its existence was once threatened by an asteroid. Its future may ...

Two asteroids are set for safe flybys near Earth, reassuring the public that no threat exists. NASA emphasizes these events ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

Four near-Earth asteroids are set to make close approaches to Earth within a 24-hour period, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed. Scientists stress that all four objects will pass ...

With Halloween decorations, such as Home Depot's 10-foot skeletons, becoming as popular as Christmas decorations, October is a great time to see all kinds of spooky and cool light shows in your ...

Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbor valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...

In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris ...

NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya said that despite many rumors about the traveler, it was definitely a comet, not a spacecraft from another star as some have claimed.

18 years ago, NASA lost an asteroid. Officially designated 2007 FT3, the Empire State Building-sized rock was tracked for around 24 hours before it slipped back into the solar system's darkness — and ...