The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.

It’s been hypothesized for decades that life on Earth may not have been as “homegrown” as one might think and now, we’re ...

Learn about the molecules and materials found in samples of asteroid Bennu, including sugars, space gum, and an abundance of ...

NASA is floating a notional mission that would send three astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid using SpaceX hardware, and the ...

Professor K.T. Ramesh's How to Stop an Asteroid course introduces first-year Johns Hopkins undergrads to both the engineering ...

WASHINGTON — One of the best and brightest celestial displays of the year is about to peak this weekend. The Geminids, an ...

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

To enjoy the Geminid show, bundle up and venture away from city lights, which can drown out fireballs. The meteor shower will ...

If you have any clear night skies this week, bundle up and get outside to see the best meteor shower of the year!

The moon is going to cooperate this year, which means we should be able to witness the Geminids, one of the brightest and ...

Australia will enter a peak Geminids window this weekend as moonless skies promise one of the strongest meteor displays of ...