Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was ...

Look up! The Lyrid meteor shower will fill skies over the United States with shooting stars Monday night into early Tuesday ...

The Lyrid meteor shower occurs in the middle of April and is one of the most exciting celestial spectacles of the year.

Pyramid Lake: A popular spot for Renoites seeking a night of stargazing, the lake is less than an hour from The Biggest ...

The Eta Aquarids meteor shower is already active, and annually comes from April 19 to May 28. Peak viewing is expected on May 5 and 6.

The peak of the Lyrid meteor shower shower this year is expected Monday and Tuesday this week, when the tail is at its peak.

The glowing object was a bolide, fireballs that explode in a bright flash, according to experts. It streaked across Mexico’s predawn skies on Wednesday.

New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? Researchers show that this is not due to the random pull of the planets, but rather the ...

He said unlike meteorites, which impact Earth, a bolide disintegrates in the atmosphere. This particular meteoroid, he said, was around five feet in length and posed no threat to the public.

The Eta Aquarids is one of two meteor showers created by debris from Comet Halley. Earth crosses Halley’s orbital path twice a year — once in spring and again in fall. The second crossing ...

In the field of space exploration and asteroid monitoring, some discoveries raise more eyebrows than others– and asteroid 2024 YR4 is one of them. When it was first detected, astronomers feared ...