A fireball briefly turned night to day in the skies over Japan on the night of Aug. 19, before appearing to fragment over the ...

An artist's impression of Japan’s Hayabusa2 space mission touching down on the surface of the asteroid 1998 KY26. New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have r ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The ...

The Hayabusa2 mission is facing a new challenge after observations showed the asteroid it is going to rendezvous with and ...

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: ...

New observations reveal that the asteroid 1998 KY26 is much smaller and spinning much faster than originally thought.

The Perseid meteor shower is visible from Thursday, July 17th, through September 1. The Perseids are predicted to reach their zenith or peak streak on the evening of August 12th, continuing until just ...

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The Perseids meteor shower will kick off Thursday night with shooting stars and zooming fireballs expected to light up the sky through August. Here's when it peaks and where to watch. The Perseids ...