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Two space events are set to take place in the sky this weekend, coinciding in the early hours of Saturday morning.A meteor shower will brighten the sky with the debris of Halley’s comet as the full moon is engulfed by the Earth’s shadow in…

You could catch a glimpse of the Eta Aquarids meteor shower if moonlight doesn't interfere on Saturday when it is expected to peak, according to the American Meteor Society. The Eta Aquarids meteor shower…

Asteroids are mostly rocky and airless remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system. On the other hand, Comets are a mix of ice and rock. One of the interesting facts about comets is that they do form tails as the Sun…

Video captures fireball falling from sky…

Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine's border with Canada, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground — just waiting to be picked up. If you're the first to find a really big one, a museum says…

Did you see the fireball that flew across Maine's skies over the weekend? If you did, it could be beneficial to try to remember its path, as a local museum is offering thousands of dollars for a piece of it. On Monday, the Maine…

Meteors are objects in space which enter Earth's atmosphere at high speed and burn up, and are visible in the form of fireballs or “shooting stars”. If the meteor falls on the surface of the planet without burning up completely, it is…

A video shared on Facebook claims to show a meteor shooting across the sky in Mission, Texas. Verdict: False This video is miscaptioned. An astrophysicist said that the object appears to be a rocket launch. Fact Check:  A two-foot…

Several people observed a meteorite illuminating the skies in Texas a few days ago on February 15 as it transformed into a fireball. While these space rocks usually have close encounters with Earth, they rarely come close enough to crash.…

Asteroids often make close approaches to Earth, and they mostly do so without causing any harm. However, there is no guarantee that an asteroid will not hit Earth in the future. If history has taught us anything, nothing in life is…