Soviet satellite Kosmos 482 is set to tumble back to Earth's atmosphere after 50 years in orbit, and its landing spot remains ...

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...

Known as the flower moon, May's full moon will reach peak illumination at 12:56 p.m. ET on Monday, May 12, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. May's full moon will be a micromoon, which is when the ...

The reason why the Lyrid meteor shower remains famous is its history. It occasionally produces a meteor storm, with several ...

While most meteors burn up as they fall toward Earth, some survive the trip and are then considered meteorites. The Lyrids can be surprising; while viewers can expect 10 to 20 meteors per hour ...

The first recorded sighting of a Lyrid meteor shower goes back to 687 B.C. in China. Observers there said the Lyrids were "falling like rain." Earthsky said that in 1982, American observers saw an ...

A spectacular meteor shower is set to peak over the skies of the UK on Monday night and Tuesday morning, with up to 100 ...

The Lyrid meteor shower is set to peak tonight, and while not one of the best of the year, you'll be able to see up to a dozen meteors per hour.

However most of these objects fall into the ocean or uninhabited areas, so they often go unnoticed. Denton Ebel, a curator of meteorites at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan ...

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is expected to peak May 5-6. May's full moon will arrive May 12. It will be a micromoon. Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft, is expected to fall back to Earth between ...