Watch stars rain down from the sky in the best meteor shower this month—and if you live in the Southern Hemisphere, the best meteor shower of the year.

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TX68 appeared to have a four in 1 billion chance of hitting Earth. That may sound like a long shot, but the odds were four times higher than the threshold NASA has set for potentially hazardous objects.
On March 10, 1982, a certain facet of people were bracing for a series of global disasters—earthquakes, tidal waves, and violent storms—that they believed would be caused by an alignment of all nine planets.
Seeing the astronomical phenomena known as the northern lights, a.k.a. aurora borealis, is a bucket-list item for many people.
After a decades-long search, scientists have managed to detect ethereal ripples in the very fabric of space.
The galaxies are located 250 million light-years away in the Zone of Avoidance.
"Everybody wanted to know about what kind of makeup I was taking up," Sally Ride said about the questions she was asked ahead of her historic flight into space. "They didn’t care about how well-prepared I was to operate the arm or deploy communications sa
El’gygytgyn might sound like the name of Cthulhu's kid brother, but it's actually an impact crater on the Chukotka peninsula in Russia.
Both Earth and the Moon contain molecular traces of Earth’s head-on collision with the vanished planet Theia.
Scientists compared rainfall data with lunar position and found a distinct pattern.