David Jewitt at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues studied images from ground-based and ...

The recent auction of a Martian meteorite -- for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York -- has sparked ...

Peterson Planetarium, hosted on the ESU campus, will unveil a new exterior look Wednesday afternoon at 4:00 p.m., and a piece of NASA-related equipment. The unveiling will take place outside ...

Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up in August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and ...

Earth landing on Hulu, we asked a zoologist if any of the Xenomorph's infamous characteristics occur in the natural world ...

Perseid meteor shower peaks August 12–13 with up to 100 meteors/hour; watch live or catch fireballs before dawn.

What if alien life on other planets didn’t need liquid water to exist? This is what a recent study published in the ...

Today also marks 20 years until the "next big total solar eclipse" in the U.S, "one of the most impressive of the century," an expert told Newsweek.

The Perseids are active from mid-July to mid-August with a peak occurring overnight from August 12 to August 13. As many as ...

Theodore Roosevelt National Park will host the Dakota Nights: Astronomy Festival on Friday, August 22 and Saturday, August 23, inviting the public to celebrate the wonders of ...

Life as an astronaut is dangerous, to say the least — but what are the invisible threats posed by the deepest reaches of outer space?

NASA says about 50 to 100 meteors are seen per hour during the shower, with meteors shooting across the sky at about 59 ...