Here’s how to see the year’s most-intense meteor shower, a blood-red lunar eclipse and Saturn’s refreshed rings this summer.

Scientists from the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona and the University of Bordeaux in France have found that millions of comets could be racing towards the inner solar system because of ...

On June 30, 1908, a giant fireball exploded over the forests of Tunguska in Siberia. The impact leveled hundreds of miles of ...

Halley’s Comet is one of the most famous visitors in our Solar System. It is a massive, peanut shaped object made of ice, ...

June 30 marks Tunguska, Congo independence, and Soyuz 11, plus events from Hernán Cortés to Tower Bridge, Hitler’s purge, and ...

The Tunguska space object was most likely a fragment of a comet’s icy nucleus, which turned into a cloud of water vapor at the moment of the blast, expl ...

This year’s Asteroid Day has planned events worldwide and online. It acts as a reminder about advances in planetary defense.

Around 7:15 am on June 30 in 1908, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II, an object from space entered Earth's atmosphere over ...

Our solar system is a celestial shooting gallery, chock-full of flying projectiles that one day could threaten Earth—so what ...

A small body in the Kuiper Belt, beyond Neptune, has exhibited an atmosphere. The last time astronomers found an atmosphere in a trans-Neptunian object was in 1988, when Pluto revealed its own. But it ...

One night in 1178, five English monks looked up into the summer sky and witnessed a violent explosion on the surface of the moon, writes Dr ...

A massive explosion rocked a Pennsylvania community on Thursday morning, injuring three people and damaging several houses.According to reports from WTAE's ABC affiliate, WNEP, police said a propane ...