For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

The North and South Taurids occur every year in September, October, and November. They may have originated from a comet that broke up about 10,000 years ago.

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

Nasa's Matthew Dominick demonstrates how astronauts eat ketchup aboard the International Space Station. This is the reality for American astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore who will be voting ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

NASA revealed that 'Asteroid 99942 Apophis' is a near-Earth object (NEO) which is likely to be about 335 meters across. It is ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

NASA is on high alert as a massive asteroid, named 99942 Apophis and dubbed the "God of Chaos," approaches Earth, with its ...

An asteroid hit Earth hours after it was detected, evading NASA's early warning system, in the third close call of its kind ...