The Quadrantids’ radiant lies in the now-defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis, a region of the sky occupied by Boötes. It’s ...

This Christmas Eve, children around the world may be hoping to catch ... of a 10-story building will skim past Earth at 14,743mph. According to NASA's Asteroid Watch dashboard, asteroid 2024 ...

Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many celestial bodies in our solar system provide clear evidence of a 4.6-billion-year ...

See the US achieve many firsts in space exploration this year from SpaceX's wild rocket catch to Intuitive Machines' historic ...

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

the 14 dark comets discovered so far ... Dark comets are a newly defined type of near-Earth object somewhere between an asteroid and a comet. Described by planetary scientists as comets and ...

A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt ... system discovered 105 light-years from Earth may still be in its infancy.

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

Scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from. But two populations of so-called dark comets may tell ...

The meteors may appear fainter than their typical bright streaks. Unable to view our graphics? Click here to see them. The debris stream created by asteroid 3200 Phaethon is massive, and Earth ...