The film explores the origins and characteristics of comets, meteors, and asteroids, which are minor members of our solar system formed from leftover material after the planets. It explains how comets ...

This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, ...

Meteor showers are the product of comets or asteroids dropping debris on their orbit. Once these debris streams cross the ...

This one is active until November 20 and will peak next Wednesday night. It’s a weaker shower, producing around 10 meteors ...

Unique to the Orionids, NASA notes, the meteors seen during this shower are particularly fast and bright. Furthermore, they ...

The Orionid meteor shower peaks this year with the arrival of a new moon, offering a rare chance to see shooting stars ...

From the balcony of his family’s downtown London, Ontario apartment, five-year-old Siddharth Patel would spend nights gazing ...

Eugene Shoemaker and the impact paradigm in earth and planetary science ; Eugene Shoemaker- bibliography of impact papers / A. Glikson -- Shoemaker impact structure in western Australia / F. Pirajno ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Patrick M. Shober, NASA (THE CONVERSATION) Much of what scientists know about the ...

June 30, 2015, was the first “Asteroid Day,” when “people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids” and what can be done to protect the planet from asteroid and comet impacts, ...

Planetary scientists, cosmochemists, planetary astronomers, astrobiologists, geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, engineers, and space industry professionals ...