A meteorite crashed through a Texas home after a fireball lit up Houston skies—learn how NASA tracked this rare impact event.

The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...

A rare meteorite impact in Texas has drawn national attention after a space rock crashed through a residential roof, ...

Meteor impacts may have helped spark life on Earth, creating hot, chemical-rich environments where the first living cells ...

A meteorite hits a house in Germany after crossing Europe, surprising scientists and challenging detection systems.

Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...

Maini, of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs, is primed and ready should a planetary strike occur – and just over 12 months ago, she thought it might ...

On December 22, 2032, a sixty-metre-wide asteroid may strike the Moon. If this happens, it will not only produce a visible flash, easily spotted from Earth, but will likely be followed by periodic ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...