Meteor Crater formed some 50,000 years ago. It represents the best preserved meteor impact site in the world, measuring some ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

In 1994, astronomers witnessed one of the most dramatic events ever recorded in space when comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 smashed ...

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

NASA's DART mission launched from California changed not just the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit, but the larger Didymos' path around the sun.

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts and history-making discoverers, and jetting above the c ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 won't impact the moon in 2032.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is big and dangerous enough that it has been dubbed a “city killer.” There were concerns that the asteroid could hit the moon or even Earth in 2032.

A meteorite that plummeted into the roof and living room of a house in McDonough, Georgia, has now been found to be 20 ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was confirmed in July 2025 as the third known object to visit our solar system from interstellar space. Despite conspiracy theories, scientists say 3I/ATLAS shows all ...