"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

The Moon is no stranger to being struck by huge lumps of space rock. In fact, new research has shown that, nearly four ...

Comets that rarely swing past the sun could ram into our planet, but we could spot them using the "crumb"-like meteoroid ...

Meteoroid streams and meteor showers are fascinating celestial phenomena that occur when Earth passes through trails of debris left by comets or asteroids. These streams consist of small particles ...

NASA has noted the countries most likely to be hit by an impending asteroid with one Arab country in the list.

NASA and ESA monitor asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Learn about Near-Earth Objects ...

As there wasn’t enough excitement about comets this month ... if it’s smaller, it’s a meteoroid. When meteoroids burn up in the Earth's atmosphere, they become meteors — otherwise known ...

Chiron sometimes ejects gas and dust, like comets do. The researchers used JWST to try to see what that gas and dust is made of – not just what's in the space around the centaur in what is known as a ...

Countless celestial objects traverse the cosmos, each with its own unique characteristics and potential impact, literally, on Earth. Among ...

In a paper published in the journal Icarus, they ascribe the differences to the conditions in the protoplanetary disk where comets formed 4.5 billion years ago. "The meteoroids we see as meteors ...

It came from the same direction as the most destructive meteoroid to impact Earth in a century, but it may be three times larger. And just like that asteroid that blew out windows in Chelyabinsk ...

But there’s more! Meteors, meteorites and comets are different from asteroids, and the terms are not always interchangeable. A meteoroid is a small rock, measuring anywhere between a grain of ...