This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, ...

A startling discovery has reignited one of science’s oldest questions: where did life truly begin? Researchers analyzing a ...

Of the three November meteor showers, Leonids should be the most active. It is fed by the Tempel-Tuttle Comet, which can produce some dense debris clouds, resulting in very strong showers. Leonids is ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...

Astronomer Gianluca Masi captured spectacular footage of a glowing meteor trail wrapping around the colossal tail of Comet ...

A stunning meteor shower will light up the Australian night sky throughout November as the Earth passes through debris left ...

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...

The Leonids once produced "one of the greatest meteor storms in living memory. Rates were as high as thousands of meteors per ...

Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...

Meteorites - the rocks that hurtle from outer space and make it to Earth, get a moment to shine when collectors gather in Cincinnati to show off the treasures they have found this Saturday.