NASA says the Hubble telescope's latest observations have witnessed huge boulders "escaping" from the asteroid Dimorphos. The images are from NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) project.

With its longer, cooler nights, Autumn is an excellent time of year for stargazing, taking in a half-dozen meteor showers (including a potential meteor storm and fireball swarm), and possibly even ...

A video captured on a vehicle's dashboard camera shows what's believed to be a meteor falling from the sky over Florida this week. In the video, which was taken by Drew McKinley and shared to social ...

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

NASA is tracking a near-Earth asteroid called 2026 BJ8 that is moving through space at around 50,000 kmph and is roughly the size of an airplane. Although its speed and relatively close approach to ...

(WJW) – A large asteroid will reportedly zip past Earth on Wednesday afternoon during the autumnal equinox, which ushers in the fall season. The asteroid, known as “2021 NY1,” is being tracked by NASA ...

Next weekend will be a great time to get away from city lights to enjoy the night sky and the annual Geminid meteor shower. Meteors are also known as falling, or shooting, stars because they appear to ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — One of the best meteor showers of the year, the Geminid meteor shower, is here. The star fall event peaks Saturday night, Dec. 13, with over a hundred meteors falling every hour. “It’s ...