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

EARTH cannot defend itself against the thousands of “city killer” asteroids that are zooming around space near our planet, Nasa chiefs warn. They reckon there are about 15,000 undetected ...

According to Michele Bannister, there are a myriad of these little worlds in our Solar System as of now. We simply cannot see ...

The night lit up with blue and green flames on Feb. 10 as a fireball meteor streaked across the skies in Ohio. See the videos ...

Gazing up at the night sky, you may wonder: What is that? A bird? A plane? A...satellite? There are thousands of satellites orbiting our planet – SpaceX alone has launched more than 9,000, and there ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Satellites in the night sky over a dramatic mountain - Vytautas Kielaitis/Shutterstock Gazing up ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

P. Jenniskens, SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center; D. S. Lauretta, University of Arizona; J. Baggaley and J. Scott, Cameras for All-sky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS) low-light video survey, New ...

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 ...

Every winter in late December, kids (and adults) everywhere look up for a special delivery of gifts from the sky. We’re talking, of course, about the Quadrantids meteor shower. The Quadrantids run ...

Two astronomical phenomena — a supermoon and a meteor shower — will collide in Western Pennsylvania skies Saturday. Supermoons occur between three and four times per year and meteor showers grace ...