WASHINGTON — Summer's most dazzling meteor shower, the Perseids, peaks early Wednesday. At the same time, Venus and Jupiter ...

The Moon has been Earth’s constant companion for billions of years, shaping tides, lighting the night, and inspiring countless stories. But what if our Moon had a companion of its own, a smaller moon ...

Is the Moon concealing the icy core of an ancient asteroid within its interior? Under the Moon’s greatest intact impact ...

The resources tucked away in asteroids promise to provide the building blocks of humanity's expansion into space. However, accessing those resources can prove tricky. There's the engineering challenge ...

Discover the 4.56-billion-year-old McDonough Meteorite, a rare stony meteorite that shook Georgia with a sonic boom, now ...

A meteorite that tore through the sky in June, shaking the Southeast with a sonic boom, is now believed to be several billion ...

The Perseid meteor shower takes place each year as Earth travels through the debris shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle.

Scientists are on high alert as asteroid 2024 YR4, with a 4.3% chance of hitting the moon, could potentially cause significant damage to Earth's satellites and surface.

A meteorite that crashed into a Georgia home in June is older than the Earth itself, according to scientists who are studying the space rock. Onlookers in the Southeast were stunned when a fireball ...

A scientist says fragments of a meteorite that punched through a Georgia homeowner's roof after blazing across the sky in a fiery streak is older than the Earth itself.

Plus: The August Full Sturgeon Moon shines, the colorful double star Albireo sparkles, and Mercury reappears in the sky this ...

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