Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new research shows. Comets that rarely swing past the sun could ram ...

Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...

The North and South Taurids are meteor showers that come from the breakup of a large comet about 10,000 years ago, says Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall ...

Scientists call it a meteoroid stream, but until now had little clue as to how an asteroid—which are comprised of rock and metal—could produce one. New research published today in the ...

It's shaping up to be a good year for meteor hunting! We spoke to Bill Cooke, the lead for the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama ...

It came from the same direction as the most destructive meteoroid to impact Earth in a century, but it may be three times larger. And just like that asteroid that blew out windows in Chelyabinsk ...

A small meteoroid has entered the Earth's atmosphere and was seen lighting up the sky above the English Channel, creating a stunning shooting star effect. The 1m (3ft) meteoroid was seen shortly ...

A tiny rock fragment has hit the new James Webb Space Telescope's main mirror. The damage inflicted by the dust-sized micrometeoroid is producing a noticeable effect in the observatory's data but ...

It is about two miles in diameter and its tail extends millions of miles. Bill Cooke, of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office ...

Asteroids are remnants of the formation of our solar system, and while many can be found within the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, some cannot. One such object is asteroid ...

What is the difference between a meteor, a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid? It’s all about location and size. Roughly speaking, an asteroid is a relatively small body (that isn’t a ...