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NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the sky ...
These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighborhood to another, so this thing has likely been traveling ...
A fireball, or a bright meteorite, was seen across the southeastern United States on Thursday and later exploded over Georgia ...
Some folks already caught a sci-fi-level glimpse of it on Thursday, when a blazing meteor put a hole in a Georgia house.
A recently discovered comet, named C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, makes its closest approach of Earth on Saturday. The comet’s next appearance may be in 80,000 years.
There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...
The meteor shower is expected to peak on Sunday and Monday, at which point the moon will be 83% full, according to the AMS. The best time to see the meteor shower will probably be Monday night ...
What is the Orionid meteor shower? Unlike the Northern Lights, which are rare to see around here, or the comet that visits once every 80,000 years, Orionids shows up annually between Oct. 16-26.
This meteor shower is caused by a comet, but not the one we're seeing in the early evening sky. It's caused by the dust left in space from Halley's Comet. That comet will be visible in our skies ...
Additionally to the supermoon, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3), will appear in the sky for one more night. ... but the Orionids meteor shower will peak Sunday night into Monday morning.
From the measured shower dispersions, the team calculated the ages of over 200 long-period comet meteoroid streams, which were published in Jenniskens' most recent book "Atlas of Earth's Meteor ...