Fragments of the space rock rained down over Tatahouine, Tunisia - the filming location of Tatooine in Star Wars.
Scientists have developed a new modeling tool to help simulate the effects of a nuclear device on a large asteroid.
Just in time for the festive season, the image shows a cluster of young stars that happens to resemble a Christmas tree.
The billionaire entrepreneur and founder of Blue Origin envisages a future in which most people live in outer space.
The launch marks the third trip into space for the Chinese reusable experimental spacecraft.
There is still a great deal we don't know about the enigmatic Martian moons of Phobos and Deimos.
A groundbreaking new study has indicated that there could be habitable salt glaciers situated beneath the planet's surface.
The huge black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning at such an extreme rate that it is literally squishing space-time.
The particle is over one million times more energetic than anything generated by the Large Hadron Collider.
A new study has concluded that a Chinese rocket that crashed into the Moon in 2022 was carrying a mystery payload.
Astrophysicist Jonti Horner takes a look at what will actually happen to Saturn's rings in the near future.
The enormous spacecraft successfully reached space for the first time but was unable to make it home in one piece.
The planet, known as Wasp-107b, was recently revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Many physicists assume that we must be living in a multiverse - but their basic maths may be wrong.
A gargantuan telescope known as the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is currently under construction in Chile.
The findings could not only solve the mystery of the Moon's formation, but also the mystery of two large subsurface 'blobs'.
The image, which was recently featured on NASA's website, shows what looks like a giant cranium on the desert floor.
Just in time for Halloween, NASA has posted up an image of an eerie-looking formation in the gas giant's atmosphere.
A new analysis of samples collected during the Apollo 17 mission has raised new questions about the age of the Moon.
Sagan and his colleagues used instruments aboard the Galileo spacecraft to conduct a very important control experiment.