A meteorite that crashed in Germany almost 300 years ago is now helping scientists change how we understand heat. Carved from ...

Natural diamond, seen here, has a cubic packing structure. But a much rarer form of diamond has hexagonal packing and has now ...

Here's everything to know about the August full moon, including what is a sturgeon moon and what big celestial event coincides with it.

When the moon completes the first quarter of its journey around Earth this morning at 5:41 a.m. Its 90-degree angle between ...

In August, skies darken in the north and stay long in the south, offering ideal views of meteor showers, planetary alignments ...

On August 12, the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter (noted above) will be positioned such that Venus will appear bright while Jupiter takes on a golden glow. The conjunction of the moon and the planet ...

An asteroid having the size of a 15-story building might slam into the Moon in 2032. If it does, Earth could see a meteor ...

A rare meteor shower is currently racing across the UK's night skies, with the celestial event set to peak tonight, July 30.

"Up to 10% of the lunar ejecta could reach Earth within days," said Paul Wiegert, a planetary scientist and lead author of ...

Although carbon-rich asteroids are common in space, they account for less than 5% of the meteorites that reach Earth. To unravel this mystery, an international team of scientists launched a global ...

Ukrainian swimmer Vladyslav Bukhov fled his hometown as a child in 2014, when Russia first invaded his country. Then came the ...

The Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids are set to peak tonight and will be active until mid-August ...