Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and ...

CHEROKEE NATIONAL FOREST, Tenn. (WJHL) — No roads exist in a nearly 10,000-acre expanse straddling Holston Mountain that descends toward South Holston Lake on one side and Stoney Creek on the other, ...

Meteoroid streams are coherent groups of debris originating primarily from cometary or asteroidal fragmentation, which travel through the Solar System along similar orbital paths. As Earth intersects ...

Unlike most meteor showers, the Quadrantids originate from an asteroid rather than a comet. The shower's peak activity only lasts a few hours, making it more difficult to spot than other showers. In ...