ASTEROIDS are constantly passing Earth – and every once in a while some make a direct hit. Fortunately, the latter are all ...

A skyscraper-sized asteroid is set to narrowly miss Earth next week, Nasa has warned. The space rock, dubbed 2024 ON, has ...

A stadium-sized asteroid is passing relatively close to Earth on Tuesday, NASA announced. Its distance from Earth and its ...

Sep. 11, 2024 — Astronomers have achieved a major breakthrough in solar physics by successfully producing detailed maps of the Sun's coronal magnetic fields. This milestone promises to enhance ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

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Protoplanetary disk. Figure from a computer simulation visualizing the formation of planets ( Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech.August ...

Throughout Earth's history, the planet's surface has been regularly impacted by comets, meteors, and the occasional large ...

The asteroid impact in Mexico left deposits similar to those made by other asteroids from the outer solar system.

Meteors are grains of dusty debris from parent bodies like comets and asteroids. As the Earth’s orbit intersects that of the parent body’s orbit, some of this dust smashes into the Earth’s atmosphere, ...

If you are an amateur astronomer, and comets, asteroids, meteors, and the zodiacal light are your quarry, then this is the book for you. Comet observers can learn how to make visual estimates of ...

Clear and easy to use, this guide shows you how to make successful and valuable observations and records of comets, asteroids, meteors and the zodiacal light. For each topic the historical background ...