Every December, Earth plows through a dusty lane of debris in space, and the night becomes illuminated by streaks of meteors.

A rock no bigger than a golf ball could have caused the recent lunar impact, according to the observatory. At an ultra-high ...

The Ursids mark the final peak of meteor activity in 2025, even as the Quadrantids arrive later in the year. Often overlooked ...

Although the Ursids are active from Dec. 13 through Dec. 26, the peak night coincides with the winter solstice, which occurs at 10:03 a.m. EST on Dec. 21. Though the two events are totally unrelated, ...

Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon seven years from now.

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something NASA is calling "space gum?" ...

During the Ursids, skygazers typically see five to 10 meteors per hour with bursts of up to 25 meteors per hour. The meteor ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

On Dec. 13, 2012, a Chinese spacecraft flew by the asteroid Toutatis. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

The most promising clues are not in speculative business plans but in ancient space rocks themselves, whose chemistry and ...

Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...