Asteroid hit North Sea: A long-standing scientific debate has finally been resolved: the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was formed by a massive asteroid impact around 43–46 million years ago.

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, March 20The vernal equinox occurs at 10:46 A.M. EDT, bringing ...

Meteorite hunters from far and wide are flocking to one Ohio county in search of their own piece of outer space.

Rocks from outer space are constantly hurtling toward Earth, slamming into the atmosphere and often exploding into fireballs that both delight and alarm people. Thankfully, the vast majority cause ...

Meteorite hunters are combing Ohio for fragments of a space rock that streaked across the sky earlier this week.

Overview On March 10, the asteroid Vesta, symbolizing our devotion and what we hold sacred, transitions into the mystical sign of Pisces. This shift can draw us towards pursuits such as meditation and ...

Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself ...

Don't worry, it's not hurtling towards us.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...

For a brief time, "Asteroid 2024 YR4" was considered to be the most dangerous asteroid discovered in the last 20 years.