A meteor is in the Earth's atmosphere, entering at high speed and burning up before hitting Earth. These are often called shooting stars, and a fireball is a meteor that appears extra bright. A meteorite is when a small part of the meteoroid survives the trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground.

A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance to the moon.

A small asteroid, known as 2025 TF, flew over Antarctica on October 1, 2025, at an altitude of only 266 miles.

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that won’t return until the next millennium.

The Geminids, one of 2024's most-anticipated meteor showers is about to be at its best and most active. It's not just the quantity of meteors that the Geminids put out that make them famous, but also the quality. The meteors produced by the Geminids ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope helped an international team of astronomers find that an unusual object in the asteroid belt is, in fact, two asteroids orbiting each other that have comet-like features. These include a bright halo of material, called a ...

The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say.