A hidden rock flying through space is making itself known via meteors or shooting stars. The post Earth Now Flying Through a ...

NASA postdoctoral fellow Patrick Shober discovered that Earth is currently flying through a debris field of fragments shed by ...

Earth has recently traversed a trail of cosmic debris left behind by a disintegrating asteroid, a Nasa researcher has warned.

Astronomer Patrick M. Shober found a new meteor shower—and it comes from an asteroid getting broken down by the Sun.

An asteroid the size of a football field will whiz notably close to Earth on Sunday. Dubbed 2017 BS5, the asteroid was first identified earlier this year, and scientists expect it to pass within ...

This image shows a large ring structure positioned within an asteroid field in deep space. It highlights a futuristic space ...

Historically planetary defense research has focused on deflecting asteroids by using momentum to nudge their cosmic course away from Earth. That’s what NASA did with its Double Asteroid Redirection ...

ESA's Hera mission has captured images of asteroids (1126) Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both a successful instrument test and a demonstration ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...