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

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.

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

Big changes are arriving, and there’s no avoiding them! Action planet Mars is moving into scintillating Scorpio for the first ...

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

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

It could mean two bright comets will be visible in the night sky at the same time, on the peak night of a meteor shower.

October will see four meteor showers streak across Michigan skies as the Draconids, Orionids, Southern Taurids and Northern Taurids provide a monthlong light show late at night, according to EarthSky.

As Earth passes through the debris trail of Comet 55P/Tempel–Tuttle, the night sky will light up with ten to 15 meteors per ...

The researchers from Sun Yat-sen University in South China's Guangdong province analyzed multi-temporal images of the moon's ...