On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The shock wave from this explosion damaged thousands of ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...

Beloved German IP Tabaluga is getting a new hybrid live action-animation movie from original co-creator Peter Maffay.

The U.S. is full of fantastic places to catch the northern lights, with Glacier National Dark Sky Park in Montana, Acadia National Park in Maine, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula among the best. But if ...

Cosmic dust normally comes from dying stars. The recipe for a lab-made version includes a few gases, vacuum tubes and ...

The Allende meteorite, which fell in 1969, has provided groundbreaking insights into the formation of the solar system and ...

Known non-biological sources, from meteorites to surface chemistry, fall short of accounting for organic compounds detected ...

In 1883, a comet capable of ending life on Earth narrowly missed impact. Only one man on the planet noticed, a Mexican scientist.

Dozens of people across Wyoming, Colorado and Utah saw a colorful fireball streak through the sky Thursday night. Experts say ...

A doctoral student re-created a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

Earth is still collecting scars from space, and scientists are only now learning to read them properly. Newly mapped impact craters, both on land and hidden beneath the oceans, are revealing that ...