A 3-foot-wide meteor weighing about a ton broke through the Earth’s atmosphere on Saturday and exploded with the force of 26 ...

Have you ever looked up at a “shooting star” and wondered what you’re actually seeing? The terms meteor, meteorite, and ...

The fireball shattered with the force of 26 tons of TNT, potentially spreading shards over a swathe of Texas land.

Lady Fortune was on astronomers’ side when they pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a comet drifting through our solar ...

So far, 2026 has offered up some celestial spectacles, including a total lunar eclipse and a planetary parade. But the beginning of the year has been devoid of major meteor showers. That changes ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

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 ...

The year 2026 will feature 13 full moons, including a blue moon in May. Four eclipses will take place in 2026, including two total lunar eclipses and two solar eclipses. Stargazers can look forward to ...

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in space? And, either... Comets, asteroids, and planets: The likely origins ...

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in space? And, either way, what does this mean for other water worlds in our ...

Stargazers are in store for a treat this weekend, with the annual Quadrantids Meteor Shower due to light up our skies. Peaking during early January, the Quadrantids are considered to be one of the ...