A meteorite that struck northwestern Scotland about a billion years ago may have collided 200 million years later than initially believed. New research from Curtin University in Australia analyzed ...

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The Aquarids, a meteor shower famous for its speedy balls of space debris that streak across the night sky, is due to peak in early May. The ETA Aquarids reliably becomes most active around early ...

Not a typo! The Aquarids is sometimes spelled as "Aquariids." Like all meteor showers, Aquarids are best viewed during dark hours between midnight and dawn. A meteor shower famous for its speedy ...

We've discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously thought. Our results are published today in the journal Geology. This ...

The third major meteor shower of the year, the Aquarids meteors are considered the best shower of the year for the Southern Hemisphere. But the meteor shower can still be seen around the globe ...

BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania — You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate.

Water is essential to life as we know it, but scientists are still unsure about how it originated on Earth. One theory is that asteroids express-shipped us hydrogen, essential to the formation of ...

Skywatchers in Iowa have one last opportunity in the coming days to catch a meteor shower, as the next one won’t peak until late July. The ETA Aquarids, a meteor shower that originated from the ...

The Eta Aquariid meteor shower is about to reach its peak — and you’ll need to get up early to see this celestial show. However, it’s the last meteor shower until late July, and is ...

The annual Eta Aquariid meteor shower (also called the Eta Aquariids or Eta Aquarids) will peak tonight and tomorrow (May 5-6), giving skywatchers a chance to see "shooting stars" in the night sky.