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...

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

It’s a waning gibbous moon, ideal for spotting what could be some pretty fiery meteors spewing from the mouth of Draco, the dragon...

Word on the street: If you see no other meteor shower this year, make it this one...

Although human hunting played a part in the demise of the woolly mammoth about 10,000 years ago, homo sapiens were but bit players in a global drama involving climate change, comet...

The Lyrids lit up the night sky on Saturday-Sunday, and then delivered a parting shot over Nevada and northern California—a fireball that streaked across the sky on Sunday at aroun...

It's a veritable sky party on the night of April 21, as 15–20 or even more Lyrid meteors shower down hourly upon the skies of Mother Earth...

A centuries-long journey will end tonight for hundreds of comet fragments as they smash into Earth's atmosphere at 90,000 miles per hour, burning up 50 miles above Mother Earth's s...

Just before the moon rises on December 13, and just after it sets on the 14th, and even during the hours between, the celestially inclined are invited to train their eyes on the sk...

Although it wasn't visible from the ground without a telescope, asteroid YU55 burst into public consciousness with its close approach to Earth on Tuesday November 8...