When viewing a meteor shower, you are seeing pieces of comet debris that heat up and burn as they enter the Earth's ...

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

Five years of imagery from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have been stitched together to create an all-sky and northern & southern ecliptic mosaics. Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat and break down plastic, and how animals' sense of smell varies by altitude.

Astronomers have spotted a new interstellar object — the third of its kind ever seen — shooting towards us through the solar ...

Yamaguchi was doing a three-month job in Hiroshima when he headed to work late that fateful day (delayed by forgetting his ID ...

The meteor shower occurs annually from about July 17 to Aug. 23, typically peaking in mid-August, according to the American ...

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

A rare interstellar comet is flying through our solar system. Here's how—and when—you might be able to see Comet ATLAS from ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...