This December's dazzling display comes from a strange asteroid with comet-like behavior—and a tail of debris that astronomers ...

The event coincides with the Geminid meteor shower, one of 2025’s most prominent annual celestial shows, which is expected to ...

Four near-Earth asteroids are set to make close approaches to Earth within a 24-hour period, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed. Scientists stress that all four objects will pass ...

The same geomagnetic storm that makes aurora sightings likely can disrupt power systems, navigation signals, and satellites.

Locked inside a frozen rock from the edge of the world is a story that began before Earth had oceans, continents or even a ...

Even though the shower begins tonight, the peak night will be December 13–14. This is when you will see the most meteors.

The Geminids return with near-perfect viewing conditions, offering skywatchers up to 150 meteors an hour under dark December ...

Next weekend you can catch one of the best meteor showers of the year. It’s the annual Geminid meteor shower, and if the ...

What is “gum”? Most people have probably never considered this question, and might answer something like a chewy material you ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

The light shows keep coming in 2026. Here's a calendar of full moons, supermoons, eclipses and meteor showers over California.