Another month is upon us, and the StormTracker 59 team is here to share a few neat celestial events taking place in our ...
This year spectators will have to contend with a nearly full, bright waxing gibbous moon, which may spoil the best views of the meteors by outshining them, per experts. Named after Gemini because ...
Significantly, Dr. Daigo Shoji, of JAXA, notes that microscopic meteoroids (micrometeoroids) as small as 2 nanometers in size have the power to cause damage to Ryugu. This is because the particles ...
This year spectators will have to contend with a nearly full, bright waxing gibbous moon, which may spoil the best views of the meteors by outshining them, per experts. Named after Gemini because the ...
The Northern Taurids are active from October until the beginning of December - but this week they are expected to produce very bright meteors. Experts say the astronomical event only produces ...
Prior to the start of the Space Age in 1957, the only objects we had to consider falling from space were meteors, asteroids, and the occasional comet. Today, however, with satellites and ...
Get ready for a spectacular space extravaganza, as meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streak across the skies. The Geminids, the most impressive meteor show in the northern hemisphere, has already ...
The discovery supported the theory that perhaps space rocks like asteroids and meteors carry seeds of alien life used colonise the galaxy. But a team of researchers, led by Matthew Genge of ...
Meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streak across the sky Dec. 14 above the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a program of NSF's NOIRLab in Tucson, Ariz.