If you are a dedicated sky watcher, you are about to be rewarded with the final meteor shower of 2024: the Geminids are here, ...

In 2021, Comet 67P made its closest approach to Earth in 200 years. The space rock may be speeding away from our planet ferrying two defunct robotic passengers, but its historic cruise alongside the ...

Chiefly, the finding could help explain why Pluto, the largest known object in the Kuiper Belt — a vast region of icy bodies ...

The Observatory is home to the largest optical telescope in the state of New York, a computerized f/4 Newtonian reflector ...

On a dark night, at the peak of the shower at around 2 a.m. (for all time zones), "you can often catch 50 or more meteors per hour," EarthSky.org stated. "During an optimum night for the Geminids, ...

The Geminids — the year's best, last and least talked about multicolored meteor shower — has started and could see up to 150 ...

Research supports the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, suggesting a comet fragment caused significant climatic changes and ...

The Geminid meteor shower begins Tuesday as one of the year's best meteor showers. The Geminids start in mid-November and run ...

A BUS-SIZED “mini moon” is in the final days of its trip to Earth’s skies – and will soon vanish until 2055. The holidaying ...

The Geminids are "one of the best and most reliable annual meteor showers," according to NASA, with up to 120 meteors falling per hour at its peak.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured amazing imagery of the Chameleon I dark molecular cloud. It harbors the "deepest, coldest ices measured to date in a molecular cloud," according to ESA. Credit: ...