The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...

NASA has discovered the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, but the icy snowball object poses ...

The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

Meteor craters are incredible reminders of the powerful forces of nature and the history of our planet. These massive impact sites are created when asteroids or comets collide with Earth, leaving ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another look at the potential "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 and found its chances of hitting the moon in December 2032 have increased to 4.3%.

What’s underneath Meteor Crater is weirdly folded and smushed-up rock. On the Moon, the hope is to find ice. Wes Patterson leads the radar instrument team at Johns Hopkins University. "Looking for ice ...

How a 'mudball' meteorite survived space to land in the jungles of Central America "They're some of the most amazing extraterrestrial samples we have, the beads are tiny, pristine capsules of the ...

The asteroid, about a third of a mile wide at its equator, poses no immediate threat to our planet. But hundreds of years from now, there is a small chance that Bennu could slam into Earth.

According to Bottke, almost all the impacts we have on Earth came from objects that escaped the asteroid belt. A large body broke up, perhaps through a collisional event, creating many fragments.