The Perseid meteor shower will be lighting up the summer night sky beginning in July. But it won't peak until August. Here's how to see them in Ohio.

The largest piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth was sold for more than $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York. At such a critical moment in US history, ...

The Perseid meteor shower will be lighting up the summer night sky beginning in July. But it won't peak until August. Here's how to see them in Ohio.

THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

An asteroid, 2025 MA90, roughly the size of a building, is set to safely fly by Earth, capturing global scientific attention.

Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels strike and pulverize two large boulders on the target, debris from which ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...