2025 MN45 isn't the overall spin-rate record holder. Astronomers have found a number of small asteroids — those just a few ...

The space rock, known as “2026 AJ” and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling towards our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

Astronomers have spotted an asteroid the size of nearly eight football fields, with the help of the largest digital camera in ...

The asteroid, discovered using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, is one of 19 large fast-rotating asteroids found with ...

Not only will the Quadrantid meteor shower experience its peak, the year’s first supermoon will shine bright, depending on ...

Your first major opportunity to spot shooting stars and bright fireballs in 2026 arrives overnight tonight with the peak of ...

A meteor explosion has been captured from space for the first time ever, thanks to a team aboard the International Space ...

Scientists say a meteorite that struck a Henry County home is over 4 billion years old, making it about 20 million years older than Earth. The space rock likely came from the main asteroid belt ...

The year’s first supermoon and meteor shower will compete for dominance in January skies. The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks ...

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, ...