NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, currently aboard the International Space Station, captured footage of a meteor burning up in ...

To best see the Lyrid meteor shower, Griffith Observatory's director suggests heading to the mountains or desert to get away ...

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

Oxford researchers have unearthed a cosmic surprise showing that the hydrogen needed for water was embedded in the very rocks ...

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A fireball soared over Mexico City in the early hours of April 16. It wasn't a meteorite, though — it was a bolide, a much ...

The Lyrids are expected to peak April 21 and April 22, according to NASA. On those nights, the moon will be at 40% brightness ...

One of the first major meteor showers of the year will coincide with Earth Day this year, offering a heavenly experience for ...

An international team of researchers may have answered one of space science's long-running questions—and it could change our ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to ...