Lunar minerals generate the rust mineral hematite when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, simulations show.

You don’t need a telescope or pricey camera to capture the stars—just your phone. We spoke to an expert about adjusting exposure, stabilizing your shot, and using camera settings like a pro to turn ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3% chance of ...

Scientists have, for the first time, pinned down exactly when microbes colonized a meteorite impact crater. The team shows ...

Amid the season with at least one meteor shower occurring every night, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may become visible to us in early November.

This October, astronomy enthusiasts can anticipate the visible passage of two comets, C/2025 R2 (SWAN) and C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) ...

The Sordid Mystery of a Somalian Meteorite Smuggled into China M illennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, ...

The next solar eclipse will be on Feb. 17, 2026. The next solar eclipse will be an annular solar eclipse on Feb. 17, 2026, and will be visible from a remote part of Antarctica.

A man driving along I-81 in the Salina area had his dashcam rolling when a bright light streaked across the early morning sky on Sunday morning.

While Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was visible via binoculars during a near approach to Earth in October 2024, the ...

We generally believe that the forces shaping the Earth come from volcanoes, earthquakes, and the slow drift of continental plates. The significance of meteorite impacts cannot be overlooked, as ...

Season 9 is here with a premiere focused on an outrageous meteor shower. However, the show still hasn't fully jumped the ...