The meteor shower has produced an increasing number of fireballs, which are large explosions of light and color, each year, as previously reported by USA TODAY. If the skies are clear, the shower is ...

Northern Taurid meteor shower 2025 peaks tonight amid Leonids and zooming fireballs. Here's how to see, where to look, when ...

This year's Leonids offer one of their best viewing windows in recent years, thanks to a nearly moonless night. According to ...

The Northern Taurids are a long-running meteor shower that produces a few slow, bright meteors per hour with a higher chance ...

As the active period for meteor showers and other astronomical events continues, viewers can expect the year's largest annual ...

On October 30 and November 1, Daichi Fujii, an astronomy curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, used his telescope to capture pinprick-sized flashes on the shaded side of the moon. Were the ...

Fujii began tracking moon flashes more than a decade ago. He started initial observations in 2011, he explained. He has been ...

These impacts pack surprising power; a mere 11-pound meteoroid can blast a 30-foot (9-meter) crater, ejecting 75 metric tons of lunar soil.

The astronomer said that it may have originated from the Southern or Northern Taurid meteor showers, but it's not confirmed.

Two bright meteors were caught slamming into the moon on Thursday (Oct. 30) and Saturday (Nov. 1), by Japanese astronomer ...

“Full beaver supermoon” is not a combination of words that one encounters often, but this month brings the second of three consecutive supermoons. November’s moon also brings our orbital friend ...

Explore NASA’s 2025 comet watchlist, which features the interstellar visitor Comet 3I/ATLAS and 8 others reshaping U.S. space ...