The Perseids meteor shower will peak on the night of August 12-13, with up to 60 meteors per hour visible, although the view ...

An extraordinary celestial event could unfold in the night sky in less than a decade if an asteroid passing Earth collides with the Moon. The impact of asteroid 2024 YR4 into the lunar surface would ...

(Image credit: ESA - P. Carril) Soil excavated from the moon could be used to produce oxygen and methane, which could be used by lunar settlers for breathing and for rocket fuel.

A new study by astronomers at the University of Western Ontario suggests and asteroid strike in 2032 could create hundreds of slow moving small meteors ...

If Moon dust — which is, uh, basically the whole lunar surface — were indeed toxic, that would be a seriously tricky hurdle for scientists to climb.

Moon dust may not be as harmful to humans as had been thought, with a new experiment showing that the typical air pollution on a busy street is more toxic than inhaling lunar dust.

In mid-May of 2025, an enormous cloud filled the horizon outside of Bloomington, Illinois, menacing in both scope and color. Its rusty tint was akin to the orange skies of wildfire season in the ...

Ice crystals in Earth's atmosphere sometimes align just right to create various striking visual effects, from a halo around ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — Albuquerque is under a dust storm warning as of late Monday evening. The warning will remain in place until 5 p.m. on Monday, June 30. According to NWS, travel could… ...