The tail end of Perseid meteor shower coincides with a dark new moon and clear skies in Washington tonight, Aug. 22-23.

For a brief few weeks in early 2025, astronomers were worried about the asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late 2024 by an ...

The explosion of the Chelyabinsk Meteor, which nearly hit Russia in 2013, was a viral event captured by dozens of dashcams in ...

Oh! I just saw one!” Stargazers sporadically interrupted their quiet chatter with excited cheering and clapping as they ...

The Black Moon will be in our night sky Aug. 23, which coincides with the last day of the Perseid meteor shower. This is favorable for sky watching, because a dark sky allows for more meteors to be ...

The 60-meter asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon. Could such a lunar collision create a dangerous ...

There’s still time to catch the Perseid meteor shower, with darker skies offering better viewing than during its moonlit peak ...

The fireball, widely believed to be an exceptionally bright meteor, shot through the sky just after 11 p.m., turning the sky ...

You've no doubt heard of supermoons, blue moons, mini moons and blood moons, but have you ever heard of a black moon?

Meteors are when meteoroids enter the Earth's atmosphere, or of any other planet, at high speed and burn up, resulting in ...

A fireball meteor lit up Japan’s Kyushu and Shikoku, following a rare Perseid meteoroid cluster. NASA notes 44 tonnes of ...

Perseid meteor shower ends soon. Don't miss the last nights. It, 2 more meteor showers will be back next summer. Know when to watch the dark sky ...