When many meteors appear to streak from the same point in the night sky, that point is known as the radiant. This year the ...

Nestled in Alpine County (California’s least populated county with fewer residents than many high school graduating classes), Markleeville sits at an elevation of about 5,500 feet, surrounded by ...

Tucked away in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains sits Markleeville, a place so breathtakingly gorgeous and charmingly unpretentious that you’ll wonder if you’ve stumbled into some alternate ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovers shiny metallic rock on Mars that could be a meteorite from an ancient asteroid, ...

NASA scientists were baffled after uncovering a rock on Mars that didn’t belong there — with a composition pointing to ...

Sky-gazers worldwide may get the chance to see a celestial display this week as the annual Leonid meteor shower reaches its peak.

Meteors from the Leonids can be spotted in the constellation Leo, and will be visible from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. This year, the moon will be 9 percent full, which is good news ...

The risk of flights being hit by space junk is still small, but it’s growing. About three pieces of old space equipment —used rockets and defunct satellites—fall into Earth’s atmosphere every day, ...

NASA released new images of 3I/ATLAS as it plunged towards the sun, captured by a host of the agency’s robots and probes.