NASA's DART mission in 2022 dramatically altered an asteroid's orbit, potentially sending debris toward Earth and Mars, ...

Perseid meteors in the night sky via NASA’s All Sky Fireball Network cameras across the US. Credit: Space.com |footage ...

There are nine named meteor showers left in 2024, with at least one meteor shower being active at all times. That means you ...

There's a reason the Perseid meteor shower is considered to be the best of the year. With its whizzing meteors and blazing ...

The new study asserts that Earth's ring formed around 466 million years ago, and stuck around for around 40 million years ...

Meteors can be pieces of asteroids (which are rocky objects that orbit the Sun) or comets (which are icy bodies with long tails). As comets pass near the Sun, they can leave behind trails of dust and ...

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

From Grace Earth may have had its own ring system that formed around 466 million years ago, lasting for tens of millions of ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

Leonid meteor showers will be visible starting about 11 p.m., with the best displays expected just before dawn and peak on ...

A large radio beacon, which has already been placed into service, broadcasts a circularly-polarized signal in the six-meter band which is easily reflected back to Earth off of meteors. Specialized ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...