Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

Astronomers were left less than impressed when they uncovered the truth about an asteroid they'd been keeping an eye on. On ...

China successfully launched a classified satellite on Thursday (Jan. 23), but a spent booster from the mission fell ...

Surpassing expectations, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX endured a near-Sun passage, outperforming its heat tolerances and remaining ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

A space physics expert has warned that debris falling from the sky could cause major damage and even kill people.

Herd discovered that the sample was chondrite, the most common type of space rock that strikes Earth, and that it likely originated from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The footage is ...

This is the first time the sound of a meteorite hitting Earth has been recorded, the University of Alberta said.

A meteorite crash-landed on his home’s walkway. Hoping to confirm what he saw on his camera, Velaidum sent his home security ...

"It's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter-million miles away from the Earth. So something 7.6 million miles out would be many, many ...

Asteroid (887) Alinda came closest to our planet on Wednesday, January 8, being the closest to Earth in decades and the last until 62 years from now (2087). Despite reaching its closest moment and ...

A mountain-sized asteroid will be visible from Earth this weekend in a "once in a decade" event. The massive space rock zoomed past Earth earlier this month, but it is not out of view just yet and ...