Here are the peak dates of the 2026 meteor showers. Jan. 2-3: Quadrantid meteor shower: Quadrantids are known for their short ...

Early this year, a surprise space rock made headlines around the globe when the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

While the vast majority of meteor showers come from comets, the Geminids originate from the asteroid 3200 Phaethon. It gets ...

As December arrives, the night sky over France is set to come alive with the dazzling display of the Geminid meteor shower. This annual event, renowned for its intensity, will peak on a special night ...

Taylor Observatory and Norton Planetarium offers cosmic educational events from the Earth and beyond for all ages.

A newly announced analysis of comet 3I/ATLAS has renewed global scientific interest in interstellar objects and their ...

A man searching for gold in Australia instead unearthed a 17-kilogram meteorite, estimated to be 4.6 billion years old. This ...

China has quietly confirmed that a vast circular scar in its northeast is not a volcanic basin or a quirk of erosion, but a ...

It’s time to look up as another meteor shower will light up the sky this December. The Geminids meteor shower occurs this ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems.