This year's skywatching peaks with the Orionids meteor shower, showcasing bright meteors against the night’s brightest stars, ...

This resource package is suitable for educators, students, and anyone interested in learning more about asteroids and comets ... image that can be zoomed in on to show extreme detail. Learn more about ...

The Taurid Meteoroid Stream, which is possibly responsible for the famous Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impacts, probably doesn't ...

Oct. 10, 2024 — When lightning cracks on Earth, especially high-energy electrons may fall out of Earth's inner radiation belt, according to a new study -- an electron 'rain' that could threaten ...

The Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet is visible from the Northern Hemisphere this month—and won't be back for another 80,000 years.

Typically originates from the outer regions of the solar system. Meteors are actually pieces of asteroids or comets that enter Earth’s atmosphere. When these small fragments, known as meteoroids ...

If you’ve missed a glimpse of the bright comet streaking through the evening sky, it’s not too late to catch it again.

Asteroids are composed of metals and rock, whereas comets also contain ice and dust. The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system. Due to the limited ...

A swarm of interplanetary dust, rocks, comets and asteroids thought to be ... body that fragmented as it came in from the outer solar system and got close to the heat of the sun.

A majority of comets fly through the solar system invisible to humans ... dedicated to looking out for potentially hazardous asteroids and comets. Researchers who manage the observatory spotted ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-Atalas will streak across the night sky and reach peak visibility on Oct. 13. These celestial travelers ...