To view the comets, look up in the early mornings, right before dawn. NASA suggests trying to see the show between 3am and ...

Get ready for a celestial spectacle! The Eta Aquarid meteor shower, spawned from Halley's Comet debris, is set to peak on May ...

Learn the best time and place to view the upcoming Eta Aquarids meteor shower.

NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...

The Aquarids – sometimes spelled as "Aquariids" – first became active April 19 and are due to peak between May 5 and May 6.

The regular meteor showers that we are most familiar with come from meteoroid streams that have dispersed quite widely; some of these familiar periodic meteor showers can last weeks as Earth moves ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has sent back photos of a distant space rock from its second asteroid flyby—and it looks pretty weird. The asteroid Donaldjohanson—named after the paleoanthropologist ...

Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through the debris left by comets and other space objects as they orbit the sun. The debris — space rocks known as meteoroids — collide with Earth's ...

The Lyrid meteor shower is peaking, offering a spectacular sight for ... "You will begin to see Lyrids after 10 p.m. local time," Bill Cooke, who leads NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office at the ...