The Taurid Meteor Shower is producing spectacular fireballs that can be seen in the Ozarks through mid-November, with the ...
A small asteroid just gave the Earth a close buzz. The little space rock, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Tuesday (Sept. 30) at 8:49 p.m. EDT ...
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A full moon with a chance of fireballs: Don't miss the Southern Taurid meteor shower peak tonight
2025 happens to be a "swarm year" for the Southern Taurids, which could see the shower put on a particularly impressive show during the Nov. 4-5 peak, when up to 10 bright meteors may be visible each ...
Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...
Astronomers say a recently-discovered asteroid nearly landed on Earth, and that it could have caused serious damage if it were to make landfall on the planet. The European Space Agency says the ...
A newly discovered asteroid just whizzed past Earth, marking the second-closest asteroid flyby on record, astronomers say. The asteroid flew over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 30, about ...
In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...
Earth has one true moon, but there are also several asteroids known as quasi-moons that are in orbit with the sun. A newly discovered asteroid, 2025 PN7, is the seventh confirmed quasi-moon that ...
Astronomers have reportedly discovered a skyscraper-sized asteroid moving through our solar system at a near record-breaking pace. The asteroid, named 2025 SC79, circles the sun once every 128 days, ...
If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...
As the mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS speeds towards its perihelion on 29 October 2025, NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) remains on watch — a reminder of humanity's ...
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