Don’t Miss: Best Meteor Shower of the Year Peaks This Weekend
Recognized as one of the best meteor showers, the Perseids are especially notable this year due to a waning crescent moon, enhancing visibility. The NASA…
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Don’t Miss: Perseid Meteor Shower – “Conditions This Year Couldn’t Be More Perfect”
It’s August, and that heralds one of the year’s most beloved celestial events. The Perseid meteor shower will grace the skies, peaking this weekend on…
Meteoritic and Volcanic Particles May Have Promoted Origin of Life Reactions 4.4 Billion Years Ago
Chemical reactions driven by iron-laden particles from meteorites or volcanic outbursts might have led to the formation of molecules needed for the origin of life…
Cataclysm in the Cosmos: Princeton Researchers Unmask the Violent Origins of the Geminids Meteor Shower
Princeton researchers used data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe to deduce that a catastrophic event likely created the prolific Geminids meteoroid stream. Unlike most meteor…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Sheds Light on Unusual, Violent Origin of Geminid Meteor Shower
Each winter, the Geminid meteors light up the sky as they race past Earth, producing one of the most intense meteor showers in the night…
Don’t Miss: Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower Outburst Peak – Up to 160 Meteors per Hour
The eta Aquariid meteor shower, peaking on the morning of May 5, promises an outburst year with up to 160 meteors per hour. Despite the…
Catch a Falling Star: Don’t Miss Lyrid Meteor Shower Peak
The Lyrid meteor shower peaks on April 23 with up to 15 meteors per hour. The shower is one of the oldest in history, with…
Experts on the Future of Planetary Defense 10 Years After the Chelyabinsk Asteroid Impact’s 440 Kiloton Explosion
On February 15, 2013, the people of Chelyabinsk, Russia, experienced a shocking event, and yet it was a small fraction of the devastation an asteroid…
Planetary Defense: Asteroid Racing Toward Earth Discovered Just Hours Before Impact
Seventh Shooting Star Ever Spotted Before Impact For the seventh time, a small asteroid – a meteoroid as astronomers call it – was discovered in…
Don’t Miss: Total Lunar Eclipse and Leonid Meteor Shower
The Moon goes all red, plus Leonid meteors! The Leonids will battle against moonlight this year, but anyone with a view of the Moon in…
Scientists Identify a Potential Source of a Special Kind of Meteorite
Its characteristics may help to explain certain discrepancies in the classification of near-Earth asteroids. When the Chelyabinsk fireball exploded over the Russian sky in 2013,…
Fireball Lights Up the Sky Over Salt Lake City – 16 Times Brighter Than the Full Moon
On Saturday morning, a brilliant meteor flew through the skies over northern Utah, later raining down meteorites over the Great Salt Lake. Residents of the…
Perseids Meteor Shower on the Way – But There’s a Big Problem
Often bringing one of the most vivid annual meteor showers visible in Earth’s night sky, the Perseids will peak on August 12 and 13. Usually,…
Unusual Microcrystals Discovered in Meteorite Dust
The strange carbon microcrystals have been studied by scientists from Chelyabinsk State University. On February 15, 2013, above Chelyabinsk in Russia’s Southern Urals, the biggest…
NASA’s $10 Billion Webb Space Telescope Struck by Micrometeoroid
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope sustained an impact to one of its primary mirror segments between May 23 and 25. Our solar system is filled…
All-or-Nothing: Tau Herculids Could Be the Most Powerful Meteor Storm in Generations
If skies are clear, be sure to watch for a potential tau Herculid meteor outburst early Tuesday morning. With a little cosmic luck, we could…
Fragments of a Dying Comet Might Put On a Spectacular Show – Or Pass By Without a Trace
As Earth orbits the Sun, it plows through dust and debris left behind by comets and asteroids. That debris gives birth to meteor showers –…
Spectacular New Tau Herculids Meteor Shower May Light Up the Skies Over North America
Astronomers are excited about the possibility of a new meteor shower on May 30-31, the tau Herculid shower, forecast to peak on the night of…
