Leonid meteors are a few years away from producing a storm that dazzles viewers once every 33 years, but they could still put ...
This shower may result in around 15 visible meteors per hour under ideal viewing conditions — something not entirely possible ...
But that’s not all, additional meteor streams from previous encounters with comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, the source of the ...
In April, the astronomer said that he had discovered a large asteroid with a diameter of about 200 meters, potentially dangerous for the Earth ...
As six major meteor showers remain or are set to peak by the end of 2024, here's how those in central Kansas can have the ...
This particular shower comes from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, which takes about 33 years to orbit around the sun and back near ...
Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...
On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...
The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...
Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...
Nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) evaporated during its flyby of the sun on Monday morning. An ESA and NASA telescope captured its demise.