Bright fireballs may be streaking across the night sky in the coming days as the annual Leonid meteor shower reaches its peak at an almost perfect time when the moonlight will be very low. The Leonid ...

Scientists have discovered a massive asteroid impact crater in China. The bowl-shaped depression is some 900 meters wide—more than eight times the length of a football field. In a paper published last ...

The Leonid meteor shower will peak on the nights of Nov. 16 and Nov. 17, 2025. Caused by debris from comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, the Leonids are known for their speed and brightness. A dim moon and clear ...

A quiet hillside in southern China holds the mark of something that arrived with enormous force from far beyond our planet. The Jinlin crater, tucked into the low mountains of Guangdong Province, ...

A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide with Earth. In the journal Matter and Radiation at Extremes, researchers from ...

The Taurids Meteor Shower—which dazzles stargazers every year from late October through into November—will soon reach its peak, when the spectacle is best viewed. The Taurids get their name from the ...

Astronomers can sometimes capture meteors striking the surface of the moon with relatively small telescopes on Earth. Credit: Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto / Getty Images A space rock slammed into the ...

The Southern Taurids will soon peak, but it may not be the best time to see the spectacular global event. The meteor shower is active from Sept. 20 to Nov. 20, but it will be most active when it ...

Another meteor shower is starting tonight that will be visible over Rhode Island as the Taurids meteor showers hit their peak. The Leonid meteor shower starts in Nov. 3, adding it's shooting stars to ...

A FOX6 tower camera captured an apparent meteor over Milwaukee on Wednesday. A meteor is a streak of light that appears in the sky when a small piece of space debris, often called a meteoroid, enters ...

Some people were treated to an astral spectacle late Wednesday night, as a "fireball meteor" flashed across the night sky in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin. WCCO viewer Diane Lloyd captured footage ...