One of the last meteor showers of the year, the Geminids, is set to dazzle stargazers overnight on Saturday. Follow Newsweek live.

A bus-size asteroid is on course to skim past our planet, a reminder that Earth moves through a shooting gallery of rocks and ...

A mysterious interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS is about to make its closest approach to Earth in December 2025. Here's ...

A building-sized asteroid had a 1-in-32 chance of hitting Earth at its peak, but astronomers soon found there was zero chance ...

The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.

This December's dazzling display comes from a strange asteroid with comet-like behavior—and a tail of debris that astronomers ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

I nterstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth this month, whizzing by at 270 million kilometers (168 ...

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer space. This idea suggests that prebiotic molecules—the building blocks of ...

Black holes keep showing up in the news. Scientists have recorded the space ripples from their violent crashes and even captured the first images of their shadowed outlines at the centers of galaxies.

The Department of the Interior (DOI) has announced the launch of "America the Beautiful passes," offering digital and physical passes to access our nation’s most prized treasures. The passes are ...