China's Tianwen-2 sample-return mission is well on its way to its target, an asteroid called Kamo'oalewa. The spacecraft left ...

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Tianwen-2 asteroid orbit insertion at quasi-satellite Kamoʻoalewa is set for June 7, days away, after amateur radio teams in ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

A small asteroid exploded high above New England on May 30, creating a spectacular daytime fireball and a loud sonic boom.

The long, puzzling dwarf planet Ceres, in reality the first named asteroid, has surface features that are much more complex ...

A bright meteor streaked across the Midwest sky on June 1, generating witness reports from at least eight states and leaving ...

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world—possibly as big as the moon or even Mars—orbited our sun before crashing ...

Footage from a satellite confirmed that a May 30 sonic boom heard over the northeastern US was from a meteor, NASA stated.

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The sound many people heard, NASA confirmed, was a sonic boom caused by a meteor breaking apart when traveling through ...