According to one hypothesis, the comet is responsible for giving humans the swastika symbol, thousands of years in the past.

Earth's moon is occasionally illuminated by flickers, glows or beams of light. What are these mysterious lights?

Roughly 45 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the seabed of what is now the North Sea, triggering a tsunami that rose over 100 meters high. After decades of scientific debate, ...

Earth has a near miss—twice—after two small asteroids seemingly passed alarmingly close to the planet, less than two days apart, one of them going completely unnoticed until hours after it had already ...

A huge asteroid came within 300 miles of hitting Earth, and scientists only noticed after it had already skimmed past the planet. The 9.8-foot (three metre) space rock, dubbed 2025 TF, flew over ...

Smile! A spacecraft just caught you — and everyone else on our planet — on camera while snapping a selfie. Our planet shines in the distance roughly 26.5 million miles (43 million km) away from ...

Asteroid could hit the moon in 2032Oct. 2, 2025 Kibbutz Be'eri 2 years on from Oct. 7 © 2025 NBCUniversal Media, LLC ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...