Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Comets and meteors have been raining debris on Earth for billions of years, and scientists think they just may be the vehicles that carried the "stuff of life" to the planet. Early Earth was ...

Comet P/2016 BA14 (Pan-STARRS) isn’t your average space snowball and it knows how to make an entrance. At first 2016 BA14 was mistaken for a dead, dry asteroid until subsequent observations ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...

Ebert discussed asteroids, meteors ... asteroid hit Buffalo, the destruction would extend 1,000 miles and nothing would be left standing. "And I'm sure classes at UB would be canceled," Ebert quipped.

a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid? It’s all about location and size. Roughly speaking, an asteroid is a relatively small body (that isn’t a comet), usually rocky or metallic ...