NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured extraordinary events throughout our solar system, including a comet striking ...

After nearly 22 years of exploring the universe’s most violent explosions, NASA’s Swift Observatory has re-entered Earth’s ...

From Taurid fireballs to the Leonids and November’s supermoon, here’s a guide to the major astronomical events this November.

On a typical night, you might see only a handful of shooting stars—about five per hour, under ideal conditions. But the ...

NASA's Swift space telescope crashed back to Earth today (Nov. 4), three months after a private spacecraft was supposed to ...

A 3,200-pound NASA observatory is currently careening out of orbit and heading back toward Earth. According to NASA, the ...

Comets have long been considered possible sources of the chemical ingredients that helped life emerge on Earth. But new ...

A one and a half ton NASA observatory is falling out of orbit and toward earth. NASA says the risk of the Swift Observatory ...

A MASSIVE 1,400kg telescope will crash-land on Earth in just hours. Nasa’s doomed satellite is plummeting in an “uncontrolled ...

A space telescope built to study distant galaxies has discovered a previously unknown comet approximately 1.3 billion ...

Earth passes through two debris trails from unknown comets each July and August, the Global Meteor Network has confirmed.

Did comets seed life on Earth? It's unlikely, a new study from the University of Cambridge says. It would have been a very ...