The Geminids — the year's best, last and least talked about multicolored meteor shower — has started and could see up to 150 ...

Humanity is better prepared than ever before to prevent a large asteroid from crashing into Earth, but there's more work, and ...

The team's hypothesis calls for a temporary ring around Earth, which would explain why impacts were constrained to a ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

The Geminid meteor shower begins Tuesday as one of the year's best meteor showers. The Geminids start in mid-November and run ...

What worries them most is being caught by surprise, the way they were in 2013, when a smaller asteroid, traveling undetected ...

The Earth’s natural resources are enormous but not infinite. A lack of some rare minerals can hinder technological ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

The Hera mission is headed for the Didymos binary asteroid system. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Mission (DART) smashed ...