While the Southern Taurids are active between Sept. 23 and Dec. 8, the celestial light show will be most visible Monday and ...

The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater. Rock was liquified, launching a tsunami into the Atlantic Ocean ...

Researchers have explored mysterious flow features on airless celestial bodies like Vesta, Ceres, and Europa. In their latest ...

Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby ...

This rock vapor cloud and dust ejected from the crater would have circled the globe and turned ... as being disastrous and ...

Though now, of course, they don’t; it's been 66 million years since the Chicxulub meteor smashed into Earth and wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs. So how did the S2 space rock seem to allow life ...

This rock vapor cloud and dust ejected from the crater would have circled the globe ... detrimental to life - the best example being the Chicxulub impact (at Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula) that ...

Up next, a third celestial treat named the Orionid meteor shower. Unlike the Northern Lights, which are rare to see around here, or the comet that visits once every 80,000 years, Orionids shows up ...

The Orionids meteor shower will peak on Monday night into Tuesday with the best viewing conditions between midnight and dawn. Visible until 7 November this year, the Orionids are an annual event ...

The Orionids meteor shower peaks during mid-October each year. NASA said it is considered to be one of the most beautiful meteor showers of the year. The meteors are known for their brightness and ...