If you saw lots of “shooting stars” this weekend during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, you’ll likely have a burning question that you need an answer to—when is the next one?

But a meteorite that big should have left a mile-wide scar on the Earth and plunged 300 feet into the ground, according to the study authors. "That's a very difficult size hole to make go away ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA has successfully returned a 250-gram sample of dirt from a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. Scientists around the world will study the rock particles to see ...

Not long after the Taurids, the next big meteor shower, the Leonids, will peak on the early morning of Nov. 17.