Earth's moon is occasionally illuminated by flickers, glows or beams of light. What are these mysterious lights?

The hunt is on for pieces of a meteor that crashed near Cairns, Australia, on Saturday night. The meteoroid fireball, which gave off a neon-green hue as it hurtled through the atmosphere, lit up the ...

A meteor is in the Earth's atmosphere, entering at high speed and burning up before hitting Earth. These are often called ...

For centuries, astronomers have observed Transient Lunar Phenomena (TLPs) – strange lights on the Moon. These enigmatic ...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LROC) was launched back in June 2008 to study the Moon. It was created with two Narrow Angle Cameras (NACs) and the Wide Angle Camera to capture high-resolution ...

A group in France devoted to tracking shooting stars managed to recover a fragment of the space rock, which landed in a field in Normandy. A piece of the meteoroid that astronomers predicted would hit ...

Meteoroid streams are coherent groups of debris originating primarily from cometary or asteroidal fragmentation, which travel through the Solar System along similar orbital paths. As Earth intersects ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A tiny meteoroid struck the newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope in May, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment but not changing the orbiting ...

The SAR 2667 spanned 1 meter in size and created a fire ball over the skies in northern France. Astronomers spotted a meteoroid heading for Earth hours before it slammed into our planet’s atmosphere ...

Telescopes show impact spot in Jovian clouds. Be glad you weren't there. July 21, 2009 — -- If you live in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter, you probably had a rough day Sunday. Something -- ...