Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize on Tuesday. The book follows a day in the life of six astronauts.

Early morning hours are best to see meteors, as you're standing on the swath of the surface of the Earth that's turned ...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

If you missed the chance to see fireballs of the Southern Taurids light up the sky last week, don't worry. The second branch ...

The best time to view the Taurid meteor shower is around midnight when the shower's radiant (the spot in the sky from which the meteors appear to emanate), the Taurus constellation, is high in the sky ...

Comet C/2023 P1, Nishimura visible from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Space.com Newsom calls special session to ...

They appear to have been formed by 10 or more related space rocks including the comet 2P/Encke. One hypothesis is that Comet ...

Originating from comet Encke, the meteors are expected to produce brighter and longer-lasting fireballs than other showers.

A meteor shower known for blazing fireballs is set to peak on Monday night into early Tuesday and could present a dazzling ...

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A comet that was hoped to be visible to the naked eye over the coming days has been gobbled up by the sun. The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1), passed its closest point to Earth on October 24 ...

A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft ...