The Perseid meteor shower, known for bright meteors, will see reduced visibility this year, with only 10 to 20 meteors per ...

Skywatchers were treated to a celestial spectacle in August, with the Perseids meteor shower and a stunning conjunction of ...

The space rock likely originated in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and can be traced to the breakup of a much larger asteroid around 470 million years ago.

The Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight, lighting up UK skies with up to 100 shooting stars an hour. Find out the best time and spots to watch this celestial show.

A meteorite that tore through the roof of a U.S. home in June 2025 has been dated at 4.56 billion years old, making it roughly 20 million years older than Earth itself. The impact occurred on June 26 ...

Esthetically and astronomically, the night was ideal,” a reporter wrote of a Perseid meteor watch in 1968 a period when the Moon’s phase was as this August’s was, and its brightness tempered the dark ...

This lineup follows the dazzling close conjunction of Venus and Jupiter that occurred earlier in the month, offering a new ...

A meteorite, named the McDonough Meteorite, crashed into a house in Georgia and has been confirmed to be older than Earth by University of Georgia researchers.

The Perseid meteor shower is active from July 17 until August 24 the Royal Observatory confirms, but the quantity of meteors ...

"The Perseids, which peak in mid-August, are considered the best meteor shower of the year," according to NASA. "With swift ...