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

The annual Orionid meteor shower is set to peak Sunday night into Monday at a rate of 10 to 20 meteors per hour. Here’s how ...

In the last two weeks, we’ve seen some amazing astronomical and atmospheric phenomena. First, we saw red glimpses of the ...

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is using an advanced tracking system to monitor the orbit of 2024 RV50. According to ...

A massive asteroid, roughly the size of a stadium pitch, will pass by Earth on October 17. Named 2024 RV50, the asteroid is ...

It's been 80,000 years since a meteorite by the name Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has visited our little planet called Earth. But ...

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

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

The comet was discovered independently in January 2023 by two observatories - China's Tsuchinshan (Purple Mountain) ...

There aren’t as many potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near Earth as previously thought, according to a new study.

A program collecting extraterrestrial dust in Antarctica has gathered micrometeorites that are abnormally rich in carbon, ...