This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...

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The shower will peak on Feb. 8, producing up to six meteors per hour. Occasionally, brief outbursts of 20 to 30 meteors per hour are produced. The Alpha Centaurids will be visible from the Southern ...

Is it a meteor shower? Space debris? No, it's something much, much worse. Our nearest neighbor is a full Moon no more. The Moon exploded and splintered into millions of fragments. Enormous lunar rocks ...

February kicks off with the snow moon and the Alpha Centaurid meteor shower. Here's when you can catch both ...

The Perseids will dazzle in August with up to 100 meteors an hour and ideal viewing conditions across the Northern Hemisphere ...

Japanese astronomer Daichi Fujii captured two brilliant flashes on the moon's nightside. The flashes were likely caused by ...

What would happen if asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the Moon? Scientists have a theory - There’s a 4.3% chance it hits the moon in ...

A stronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history ...

A small asteroid could strike the Moon in 2032, sparking moonquakes, glowing craters and meteor showers, while scientists debate whether to stop it or watch a rare cosmic experiment unfold.

A nearly 60 meter Apollo-class near-Earth asteroid, 2024 YR4 was spotted in 2024 whose path crosses both Earth’s and the Moon ...