Space News

Yesterday a 50 meter (160 foot) rock passed just over 27,000 kilometers (17,000 miles) from the Earth's surface. This big space rock, named 2012 DA14, dodged us while another smaller and unrelated asteroid gave us an ext...

There's been a lot of really incredible videos and images of the meteor that streaked across Russian skies on Feb. 15, 2013... but this isn't one of them. I recently spotted it on YouTube, uploaded by several users and c...

A small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere early Friday, February 15, 2013 over Chelyabinsk, Russia at about 9:20 am local Russian time. Initial estimates, according to Bill Cooke, lead for the Meteoroid Environments Of...

The movement of the Moon makes a fascinating study of celestial mechanics. Despite the light pollution it brings to the nighttime sky, we're fortunate as a species to have a large solitary satellite to give us lessons in...