Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Geminid meteor shower in rural Utah. The Geminids meteor shower is December’s biggest celestial event, delivering bright, ...

NASA is weighing in on the New Year’s Day boom heard across the Pittsburgh region. Researchers confirmed an exploding meteor was the “likely culprit” and estimated the size of the object at about ...

A chunk of rock roughly the size of a city bus is about to skim past our planet, close enough for NASA’s instruments to track every move but far enough that it poses no threat. The flyby is a reminder ...

WASHINGTON — One of the best and brightest celestial displays of the year is about to peak this weekend. The Geminids, an annual meteor shower that takes the spotlight around mid-December, is set to ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 ...

The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space ...

The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover it in ...

NASA said this week it is tracking an asteroid that could impact Earth in 2046. Astronomers recently discovered 2023 DW, which flew by Earth in late February. The 50-meter-wide asteroid has a 1 in 607 ...

A 140-foot asteroid is set to sweep past Earth today, and it seems everyone is taking notice. Astronomers have been tracking the space rock, officiall.

The sky is about to put on its biggest show of the season… and trust me, you’re gonna want front-row seats! Every December, just when the year starts winding down and the holiday madness begins, the ...