Wadhwa to join as 12th Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in October 2025 Meenakshi Wadhwa will ...

Scientists recently identified the oldest material on Earth: stardust that's 7 billion years old, tucked away in a massive, ...

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect us. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins AP ...

Get your lawn chairs ready, stargazers and space lovers! The Perseid meteor shower begins this week.The cause of this shower is due to the earth passing through bits of debris from the comet, ...

The flash in the Georgia sky in June, described by witnesses as a fireball, traveled hundreds of millions of miles through ...

The best time to view the Perseids is between midnight and dawn, according to Hankey. However, one of the best days to see the Perseids is on Wednesday, July 30, because two other meteor showers, ...

Two meteorites found in the Sahara show tantalizing similarities to the innermost planet, and while researchers say they are ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

The largest Mars rock ever found on Earth, NWA 16788, just sold for $5.3 million at a Sotheby's auction to an unnamed bidder.

The Perseid meteor shower, expected to peak Aug. 12-13, will light up the night sky with up to 100 meteors per hour, offering ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

The Perseid meteor shower is one of three that will be lighting up the summer night sky beginning in July. But it won't reach ...