On Nov. 9, another "fireball" caught the eye of stargazers across Texas. However, it turned out to actually be a falling ...
The Texas A&M Space Institute site is a grassy field outside Johnson Space Center for now. But construction is now underway, and the future building is already attracting interest from companies.
"We think the water came from the melting of nearby sub-surface ice called permafrost, and that the permafrost melting was ...
As Encke moves, it sheds dust wherever it goes, like the Peanuts character Pig Pen. A meteor shower occurs when that dust and debris light up while entering Earth’s atmosphere at high speeds.
Despite the team's success in dating the water-rock interaction, the researchers don't think Mars was teeming with water at ...
Leonid meteors are a few years away from producing a storm that dazzles viewers once every 33 years, but they could still put ...
Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of ...
Uncover the secrets of the Odessa Meteorite, a space rock that made a dramatic entrance in Texas thousands of years ago.
What appeared to be a fireball may have been a decommissioned SpaceX satellite creating a fiery spectacle as it broke up above Earth's atmosphere.
A decade ago, a mysterious crater appeared in the Russian Arctic, forming a huge jagged hole hundreds of feet wide. Since ...
The horns mounted on the front of Intuitive Machines' Moon RACER drivable demo unit are for Earth-based show only, as is the ...
As the temperatures drop and nights lengthen, we're now able to see the beautiful Pleiades star cluster rising in the east in the early evening. It lies at the shoulder of the constellation Taurus ...