Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...

A groundbreaking study on dinosaur populations leading up to their extinction points to sampling biases within the fossil ...

A fiscal meteor is heading our way ... The political reality, of course, is that they had to move quickly. Our recent history has been filled with blue ribbon panels and special commissions ...

New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.

Following the announcement of the alien planet, it didn't take long for hilarious memes to pop up across social media.

making it one of the earliest recorded meteor showers. “So we're going on 3,000 years of looking at this,” Pamela Gay, senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, told us in a recent ...

A distant ocean-covered world, teeming with life. That's the most likely explanation for a new discovery made by scientists ...

Will rates for the Eta Aquariids pick up over the next few decades? And speaking of southern showers: a recent Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams message reports a new meteor shower radiating ...