Watch for one of the best meteor showers of the year, Mars at its brightest, a new "planet parade" in late January, plus a ...

December has the longest nights of the entire year, providing more time for stargazing. However, it also brings an uptick in storms and clouds, which can make it challenging to view some of the ...

Popular media love talking about asteroid mining using big numbers. Many articles talk about a mission to Psyche, the largest ...

We’ve all been told that the largest extinction event on Earth was caused by a meteor, but what if that’s not the case? In ...

The Hailin impact crater is a newly-discovered scar in the mountains of Northeast China left behind by a meteor impact, but ...

Is it worth being afraid of asteroids?In the history of the planet, catastrophes associated with boulders flying from space ...

Researchers in Australia have uncovered what may be the oldest direct evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars.

The world's second largest meteorite has been discovered in northern Argentina, a news report says. A team of experts found the 30,800 kilogram meteorite buried in the province of Chaco ...

Her story is: the biggest meteorite called the HOBA landed on earth, 80,000 years ago. From this meteorite, it is evident that those, such as xamques, who live in the same land it rests, have parts of ...

However, the meteors pack their biggest punch every few decades when their parent comet's orbit around the sun causes a meteor storm with hundreds — or even thousands — of meteors visible per ...

It is important to stress again that at the outset that any suggestion of a spectacular meteor Leonid display this year is, to put it mildly, overly optimistic. Unless the Leonid meteor shower ...

Leonid meteors are a few years away from producing a storm that dazzles viewers once every 33 years, but they could still put on a show this weekend.