Astronomers were left less than impressed when they uncovered the truth about an asteroid they'd been keeping an eye on. On ...

T CrB is one of 10 recurring novae scientists have found in the galaxy, Bill Cooke, NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office Lead at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama ...

G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute ...

Meteoroid: A small rocky or metallic body in outer space that can enter the Earth's atmosphere. Shock wave: A type of disturbance that travels through a medium (like air) and is characterized by a ...

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 ...

So far, so typical—plenty of asteroid and meteoroid tracking missions are already in space, so why need another one? The most interesting thing about LUMIO is its location—at the L2 Earth-moon ...

Eric Mack is a reporter covering science, sustainability and space. It came from the same direction as the most destructive meteoroid to impact Earth in a century, but it may be three times larger.

Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura Kelly, set out to walk their dog when their doorbell camera captured a meteorite striking their front walkway — where Velaidum had been standing moments before.

Meteoroid: A small rocky or metallic body in outer space, typically smaller than an asteroid, that can enter the Earth's atmosphere and produce a meteor. Meteor Shower: A celestial event where ...

To see the Eta Aquarids, Bill Cooke, the lead for the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, recommends getting outside at 2:00 a.m. local time.

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...