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 ...

A massive asteroid might crash into the moon, and scientists are calling it a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

Meteorite-dial timepieces aren’t just aesthetically pleasing—they also contain the secrets to the origins of life.

For many years, planetary scientists have believed that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history (OK, the time ...

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

New research suggests Earth’s water came from sources other than meteorites, challenging long-standing theories on planetary ...

How did meteorite impacts on the Moon influence water being delivered to Earth when both planetary bodies were forming? This is what a recent study publish | Space ...

NASA research using Apollo lunar regolith data refines the Moon’s impact record and places limits on meteorite contributions to Earth’s water over geologic time.

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth’s history could have delivered ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered a major share of Earth's water. A new study by Universities Space Research ...