NASA has identified a 210-foot, airplane-sized asteroid approaching Earth today, although scientists assure it will not ...

The Earth is currently edging into three active meteor debris fields: the Southern Delta Aquariids, the Alpha Capricornids and the Perseids.

The word inertia has two different definitions, even though they really are the same. The first is a tendency to do nothing ...

Meenakshi Wadhwa was recruited from Arizona State University, where she’s been serving as director of the School of Earth and ...

The Perseid meteor shower is almost here, offering skywatchers a view of what is considered the best meteor shower of the ...

CAIRO (Jared Collins/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Researchers have discovered two meteorites in the Sahara Desert that they believe may have originated from Mercury.

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

The Southern Delta Aquariids are active alongside the trusty Perseid meteor shower.

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

The best meteor shower of the year is already happening in Pennsylvania. While we haven't hit peak viewing yet, the Perseids ...

A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up. A meteorite impact ...

The largest meteorite ever found on Earth is the Goba meteorite, which weighs an astonishing 66 tons and measures about 3 ...