Bright green meteor zooms past Sydney as auroras dazzle across Australia - Auroras sparked by latest solar storm also seen in ...

"Meteor Crater is an excellent analog for our ... It's the perfect training ground to show those processes to the field astronauts, so they understand what it is that they are doing on the moon ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --One scientist from the Field Museum made a very cool discovery. She recently returned to Chicago after finding a massive meteorite in the Antarctic. It weighs nearly 17 pounds and ...

The Leonids meteor shower will have activity throughout the month, but it will peak on the night of Nov. 17-18. The yearly spectacle occurs when the Earth passes through the debris field left ...

By measuring the radioactive elements present in a meteorite, astronomers can determine their age and match it to the "dynamical age" of asteroid debris fields. The dynamical age is the amount of ...

The strewn meteorite field is projected to be north of Waite, Maine to over the Canadian border directly west of Canoose, New Brunswick. According to their Facebook post, the museum is offering a ...

The peak of the Leonid meteor shower will shoot across the sky on the night of Nov. 17-18. The yearly spectacle occurs when the Earth passes through the debris field left behind by the comet 55P ...

Even today, asteroids collide to create debris fields within these asteroid families, called clusters. "We now see that 12 of the iron-rich ordinary chondrite meteorites (H chondrites) originated ...

A view of the Lyrids Meteor Shower and Milky Way in Panamint ... In addition, the sun's magnetic field is still in its solar maximum, making northern lights events more frequent.

Meteors become visible from Earth when our planet passes through the comet’s debris field. The April Lyrids will be followed by the Eta Aquariids meteor shower in May. Although the May moon will ...

Meteors appear all over the sky, so a wide field of view increases your chances of spotting them. No specialized equipment is needed to view meteor showers. A pair of binoculars or a telescope ...

The director said that binoculars or a telescope are unnecessary and a potential hindrance because they narrow a stargazer’s field of view. A rare meteor shower will peak late Tuesday when a ...