March's full moon appears quickly after the start of the month, followed by a meteor shower experts still know little about.

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.

It's hard enough to see a meteorite strike on Earth: Most of the bits of space debris that survive entry into the atmosphere plunge into the ocean, which covers about 70 percent of the planet. The ...

So far, 2026 has offered up some celestial spectacles, including a total lunar eclipse and a planetary parade. But the ...

If you've ever yearned to own something from out of this world, here's your chance. On Oct. 14 in Manhattan, fragments of Mars, the moon and asteroids that have fallen to Earth go up for sale, in what ...

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This spring, a blood moon and meteor shower will both be visible in Western North Carolina skies. Here's how to catch them ...

How did meteorite impacts on the Moon influence water being delivered to Earth when both planetary bodies were forming? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth’s history could have delivered a major share of Earth’s water. A new study argues that the Moon’s surface ...

High-precision oxygen isotopes in Apollo lunar soils reveal a persistent impactor fingerprint, showing that impacts contributed only a tiny fraction of Earth's water In a paper published in the ...