February 21, 2019 A brilliant daytime meteor exploded over Cuba this month. Here's where it came from Astronomers just got the goods on the meteor that flared up over Cuba earlier this month.
February 19, 2019 Football field-sized asteroid set for Earth flyby A huge asteroid is set to fly past Earth at more than 30,000 mph on Tuesday.
February 12, 2019 NASA eyes giant 'meteorite' crater beneath Greenland’s ice NASA scientists have spotted a giant crater beneath Greenland’s ice that may be the result of a massive meteorite smashing into the Earth.
February 11, 2019 Fastest-orbiting asteroid zips around Sun in just 165 days Astronomers have just found an asteroid that zips around the sun every 165 Earth days.
February 5, 2019 Could mysterious 'alien spacecraft' be nothing more than cosmic dust? The debate about what exactly the mysterious interstellar object known as "Oumuamua" is, continues to rage on. Now, a new study suggests the space object may be nothing more than cosmic space dust.
February 1, 2019 Stunning new map of the Milky Way shows 800 million stars, galaxies and near-earth asteroids At first, it looks like a planet: dark, snow-speckled and slashed down the center by a deep red scar.
January 18, 2019 Asteroids have been crushing Earth for nearly 300 million years and no one knows why A new study notes that asteroids have been impacting the Earth at triple the rate over the past 290 million years they were previously and scientists aren't sure why.
January 16, 2019 Mysterious interstellar object might not be so special after all Oumuamua was discovered in October 2017 and is now making its way towards Saturn's orbit, has sparked much discussion about what it is, but there is one thing it may not be, according to a new study. Special.
January 9, 2019 NASA spacecraft snaps incredible picture of Earth Nearly a month after it reached its destination, circling the asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has snapped an incredible image of the Earth.
January 7, 2019 Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused a mile-high tsunami around the Earth Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago thanks to a massive asteroid that hit the Earth in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, now known as the Chicxulub crater. While it's been generally accepted that the asteroid caused a massive disruption in the planet's climate, a new study says the asteroid also caused a worldwide tsunami that reached more than 5,000 feet in the air.
