Earth was grazed by a tiny asteroid last week, which passed about as close as the International Space Station (ISS).

The asteroid Ryugu is an echo from the deep, distant past. Two tiny grains of the rock, delivered to Earth in 2020 by the famous Hayabusa2 mission, contain minerals older than any found on our planet.

An asteroid was spotted whizzing past Earth last week in the second closest approach to the planet ever recorded, according ...

Scientists have successfully simulated the massive thunderstorm a wildfire once created, revealing how such fiery tempests ...

In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to not only land on and launch from an asteroid (Itokawa), but successfully ...

An asteroid named 2025 TF recently passed Earth at a very close distance. It flew nearer than many satellites orbiting our ...

In 2020, California’s Creek Fire became so intense that it generated its own thunderstorm, a phenomenon called a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. For years, scientists struggled to replicate these explosive ...