A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, Earth, and moon are directly aligned, and the moon's…

Scientists hope to use their observations to improve predictive models of how objects interact with…

In the new study, the authors write that the cooling event was only so severe because the asteroid …

There were at least three nearly simultaneous events involved in the global catastrophe that ended …

To make this list an asteroid has to be "relatively large and close" — at least 460 feet in diamete…

"But even thousands of light years away, a similar event today could cause havoc with the sensitive…

Sean Park, who is a professional photographer based in Tucson, AZ, sent us a series of beautiful sh…

Lunar eclipse is one of the most spectacular significant and interesting astronomical events. On J…

Total lunar eclipses occurs when the moon is close to a node, and the earth blocks the sun's rays f…

A lunar eclipse happens when the full moon passes through all or part of Earth's shadow. The shadow…

The asteroid, dubbed 2010 WC9 will come closer to our planet than any asteroid of its size has in t…

All but 3% of the moon will be obscured by Earth's shadow around 4 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday. It'…

It's more common to have a slight misalignment where the moon still passes between the sun and Eart…

In this frame grab made from a video done with a dashboard camera, on a highway from Kostanai, Kaza…

The sun flashed back-to-back powerful X-class solar flares at the Earth. X-class flares are the mos…

In the meantime, the spacecraft has already beamed back to Earth tons of raw images from the event …

Rocks found in Canada indicate that there might have been an even larger mass extinction befor…

The Tau Herculids meteor shower could be a dramatic cosmic display, and the first "meteor storm" si…