A meteor streaked across the early-morning sky in Russia and exploded into a fireball on Friday over the industrial city of Chelyabinsk, in the Ural Mountains...

Lucky women the world over will no doubt be sporting diamond rings on the day after Valentine’s Day, or as some like to call it, a rock...

Now that the Mayan apocalypse (so called by everyone except the Maya) has come and gone, we can once again scan the skies without trepidation...

In the Native community, deep-space rocks are not just astronomical curiosities; they are sacred objects...

We’ve been awash in meteorites lately, what with asteroids flying by and meteor showers abounding this month. (Meteorites are what meteors become once they land...

For the third time in a year or so, an asteroid is giving Earth’s orbit a swipe...

An ancient statue of a Buddhist god was carved from an even more ancient meteorite, a group of German scientists announced on September 26...

An asteroid the size of the one that whizzed between Earth and the moon last year is going to cruise past our planet on Thursday June 14 and be monitored by the Slooh Space Camera,...

Well, not intentionally, of course...

Not content with going to the depths of the ocean, Titanic and Avatar director James Cameron, whose famous declaration “I’m king of the world!” marked his ascension to the Oscar th...