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[ad_1] A meteor, a comet and a photogenic nebula have all been captured in this single image. The closest and most fleeting meteor is the meteor at the top right – it …

[ad_1] If you are a meteor lover, the year 2018 has been very kind to you. Last summer, the annual meteorite rainfall of the Perseids reached its peak the day after the …

[ad_1] Cloud cover scheduled for observation of Orionids meteor shower Friday night. (Matthew Cappucci) Looking for a fun thing to do this weekend? How about looking up! The meteorite shower Orionid peaks …

[ad_1] The Orionid meteor shower will culminate on 21 and 22 October and is expected to produce between 15 and 20 meteors per hour this year. This year's rain is a bit …

[ad_1] Alan Hale, guest columnist Posted at 19h07 MT 13 October 2018 Alan Hale(Photo: Courtesy photo / Alan Hale) This feature often discussed meteor showers at the time of their scheduled appearance. …

[ad_1] The mysterious Asteroid TB145 arrived just in time for Halloween three years ago, flying by on the night of October 31, 2015. Astronomers who spotted the flying space rock noted its …

[ad_1] The comet 21P / Giacobini-Zinner came closer to Earth when the object plummeted around the sun in September, and astrophotographers around the world photographed incredible photos of the "snowball" "of a …

[ad_1] The European Space Agency has released a new image of what it’s like to actually stand on a comet, courtesy of the Rosetta spacecraft, now lost in space. The image, which …

[ad_1] Radar images from the National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, taken on Oct. 30, 2015. Image credit: NAIC-Arecibo/NSF  There’s so much cool stuff in outer space that nobody has …

[ad_1] In the weeks leading up to Halloween, you will probably hear scary stories about a skull-like asteroid doing a near-Earth flyby on Oct. 31. Do not be afraid. The stories are …