The Quadrantid meteor shower will peak overnight between Jan. 2 and Jan. 3, offering a brief but intense burst of meteors.

A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years ...

A spectacular supermoon and the first meteor shower of the new year will soon appear in the California night sky. The ...

January’s full moon, the wolf supermoon, earned its name because wolves are more likely to be howling during wintertime, a ...

January’s full moon, known as the “Wolf Moon,” will be visible through Saturday as the first full moon of 2026.

We're in for a celestial treat to start the new year. This weekend will be the first full moon — and first supermoon — of ...

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

While Earth was famously hit by a meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, many others have also hit our planet, many of them ...

There are changes that could broaden political competition to levels that are ordinary in most states, strengthening our ...

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

Scientists are continuing to strengthen the case that a fragmented comet exploded in Earth's atmosphere nearly 13,000 years ...

Experiments show that lightning strikes can trigger the synthesis of basic organic molecules needed by living organisms.