A gigantic asteroid will fly by our planet at the end of this month, making its closest approach for at least the next two centuries on May 31. But, d...

By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 05/17/2013 11:20 AM EDT on SPACE.com The moon has a new hole on its surface thanks to a boulder that slammed into i...

By: Megan Gannon, News Editor Published: 05/02/2013 11:51 AM EDT on LiveScience In June 1908, a mysterious blast occurred above the remote Russian...

By: Miriam Kramer Published: 05/02/2013 10:08 AM EDT on SPACE.com Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have dodged a cosmic bullet .....

By: Elizabeth Howell Published: 05/01/2013 07:06 AM EDT on SPACE.com The violent space rock collisions that gave birth to Mars appear to be surpri...

By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 04/28/2013 10:26 AM EDT on SPACE.com Two surprising grains of sand in a pair of meteorites that landed on Earth sug...

By Alexandra Witze Sediment in a deep-sea core may hold radioactive iron spewed by a distant supernova 2.2 million years ago and preserved in the fos...

By: Staff, SPACE.com Published: 04/15/2013 12:30 PM EDT on SPACE.com A comet that had a slim chance of crashing into Mars in 2014 will almost cert...

By: Mike Wall Published: 04/10/2013 08:03 AM EDT on SPACE.com NASA's bold plan to drag an asteroid into orbit around the moon may sound like scien...

By: Miriam Kramer Published: 03/29/2013 10:54 AM EDT on SPACE.com Scientists may have discovered the first meteorite from Mercury. The green rock...

Widespread wildfires, a red sky, and upper atmospheric temperatures reaching 2,700 degrees? That was Earth around 66 million years ago following an an...

By: Miriam Kramer Published: 03/25/2013 10:20 AM EDT on SPACE.com THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Scientists in Europe and the United States are moving f...

The end might not be upon us, but Congress wants to plan ahead, just in case. The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology on Tuesday held...

By: Mike Wall Published: 03/18/2013 06:11 AM EDT on SPACE.com Humanity has the technical know-how to deflect a killer asteroid away from Earth, but...

The recent meteor strike over Chelyabinsk, Russia is reminding all of us just how vulnerable we are to attacks from above. So I reached out to Phil Pl...

By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 9 - An asteroid as big as a city block shot relatively close by the Earth on Saturday, the l...

By: Andrea Thompson, OurAmazingPlanet Managing Editor Published: 03/06/2013 12:49 PM EST on LiveScience Buried beneath the rocks, dirt, buildings ...

By: Joe Rao Published: 03/04/2013 03:43 PM EST on SPACE.com The Comet Pan-STARRS has brightened dramatically over this past week, putting it back ...

By: Mike Wall Published: 03/01/2013 02:18 PM EST on SPACE.com NASA is slated to get some help in the search for potentially hazardous asteroids, w...

An unusually large meteorite has been discovered by an international team of researchers in Antarctica. The team, searching an area known as the Na...

By: Miriam Kramer Published: 02/22/2013 02:12 PM EST on SPACE.com It may be the ultimate cosmic cold case, but the 100-year-old mystery of a huge ...

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 02/20/2013 10:25 AM EST on SPACE.com After the close shave asteroid 2012 DA14 gave Earth last week and the unexpect...

MOSCOW -- Scientists have found more than 50 tiny fragments of a meteor that exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains, and preliminary tests are turning ...

As the world watches for a giant asteroid to give Earth a close shave on Feb. 15, famed science educator Bill Nye suggests now is the time to get invo...

The big day is almost here: on Feb. 15, asteroid 2012 DA14 will come extremely close to Earth. How close exactly? Just 17,200 miles above our plan...