2025 includes a full schedule of meteor showers. They come around every year like clockwork and that means planning shooting star trips can be done months in advance. Here's a look at what's ...

A rare meteor was recorded passing through the sky ... causing friction that heats the meteoroid and the surrounding air. This process causes the meteoroid to melt and vaporize, creating a bright ...

Today: Mercury and Saturn are neighbors in the sky, about a half a fist held upright and at arm’s length above the west-southwestern horizon at 6 p.m. Mercury is the lower of the two. Mercury is ...

This form, called lonsdaleite, is usually found in meteorite impact sites and earlier ... the hardest diamonds have been found in asteroid and meteoroid impact craters – meaning they are rare ...

Around 9:20 a.m. local time on February 15, 2013, a blazing mass of rock from space—a meteor—streaked across the sky over ... Bill Cooke, the head of the Meteoroid Environments Office at Marshall ...

Today: On Feb. 18, 1930, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, at that time classified as the ninth planet. However, as astronomers started discovering a lot of similar objects in that part of the ...

NASA has warned the chance has doubled that the asteroid hurtling towards Earth will make contact. The United States space agency warned the likelihood of Asteroid 2024 YR4 striking us in 2032 had ...

A meteor struck Mars in February 2021 ... “These freshly mined data are exciting because they reveal that meteoroid impacts on Mars occur about twice as often as previous orbital image surveys ...

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

A camera captured what appears to be a meteor crossing the night sky over Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, in the early hours of Monday, February 10.

A dazzling meteor lit up the pre-dawn sky over Attica on Monday, captivating residents across central Greece. The phenomenon was analysed by meteorologist Thodoris Kolydas, who provided insights into ...