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

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

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, ...

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

The Perseids, considered by astronomers to be the best meteor shower of the year, are about to begin. The meteor shower occurs annually from about July 17 to Aug. 23, typically peaking in mid-August, ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...

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, ...

Researchers have found a link between two geological events in iconic locations of the U.S. Southwest that scientists ...

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 meteorite is the only lunar sample that we have from this forgotten period of the moon. A meteorite that fell from the moon and was found in Africa is a rare volcanic rock dating from a time ...