The New Year starts with a bang as Quandrantids peaks on Jan. 2 and 3. This is one of the largest meteor showers of the year, ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system ...

A once-in-a-lifetime comet is approaching the sun — and it will be visible for the first time in 160,000 years. The comet ...

The best time to watch a meteor shower is in the early predawn hours, when the moon is low in the sky. Competing sources of ...

Astronomy fans can expect to observe a series of meteor showers this year. Check out the full list of all those scheduled to ...

That doesn't mean the cosmic display – one of the few meteor showers to be caused by debris from an asteroid instead of a comet – isn't worth seeking out. Stargazers could be treated to a host ...

The Quadrantids are considered by NASA as one of the best annual meteor showers, though activity is often unseen because of ...

Sky watchers might just glance up this year and spot a star they couldn’t see before. It’s a nova — a star explosion — that happens about every 80 years in a two-star system called T ...

Unlike most meteor showers that originate from comets, the Quadrantids come from an asteroid: 2003 EH1. This small, two-mile-wide asteroid is thought to be a "dead comet" or "rock comet" and takes ...

While most meteor showers originate from comets, the Quadrantids come from asteroid 2003 EH1 — a small asteroid that was ...