Once you remember that the sun also orbits the solar system's common center of mass, it all makes sense. Our sun is wobbling, ...

The Eta Aquarids, or Eta Aquariids, is an annual shower of meteors shooting through the night sky as they come into Earth's ...

Using artificial intelligence, scientists have discovered a crater from a meteoroid that they say shook material as deep as the Red Planet’s mantle: the layer between its crust and its core.

After a lull in celestial activity, the night sky is back with a bang — the Lyrid meteor shower is lighting up the heavens ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? Researchers show that this is not due to the random pull of the planets, but rather the ...

NASA said that you should be able to see the meteors roughly after 10 p.m., but here’s how to see the meteors and get the ...

It’s said that if you catch one in the night sky the universe might grant you a wish. On any given night, shooting stars are infrequent, but you can increase your odds by shotgunning wishes during a ...

Meteoroid impacts have a significant influence on the landscape evolution of solid planetary bodies in our solar system, ...

The Lyrids, like all meteor showers, are the flying trails of debris left behind by comets, according to Bill Cooke, the lead ...

Every 2,000 years or so, a meteoroid the size of a football field hits Earth and causes significant damage to the area. Only once every few million years, an object large enough to threaten Earth ...

Entry of a meteoroid into the atmosphere is followed by ablation of the meteoroid material into the wake and subsequent ionization through high-velocity impact with the ambient atmospheric ...

Stuart Pilorz and Peter Jenniskens of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in California wanted to track some of these meteoroid streams back to their parent comet.