Far from being solid bullets of rock, many asteroids are fragile clusters of debris that spin so quickly they flirt with self ...

A spectacular supermoon and the first meteor shower of the new year will soon appear in the California night sky. The ...

A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower will peak overnight between Jan. 2 and Jan. 3, offering a brief but intense burst of meteors.

Almost 13,000 years ago, North America underwent drastic changes at a rapid rate. Mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major ...

January’s full moon, the wolf supermoon, earned its name because wolves are more likely to be howling during wintertime, a ...

The new year began with a bang as an object streaked across the heavens above Haywood — illuminating the sky with a ...

That was one of the best I’ve seen and likely the best I’ve ever caught on camera,” Wright boasted on Facebook.

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

We're in for a celestial treat to start the new year. This weekend will be the first full moon — and first supermoon — of ...

January’s full moon, known as the “Wolf Moon,” will be visible through Saturday as the first full moon of 2026.