Like meteors, space junk travels at vast speeds as it travels through the atmosphere and it begins burning up spectacularly.

The Aquarids meteor shower is set to peak this week. Everyone in the U.S. will have a chance to catch a glimpse.

A celestial spectacle from Halley's Comet will illuminate the night sky this week. Here's how to watch and when to look up.

Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet leads to two major meteor showers annually.

The Soviet spacecraft Kosmos-482 was launched in 1972 on a mission to Venus. But due to a rocket malfunction, it's been ...

With up to 60 meteors per hour under perfect conditions during the peak night, the Eta Aquariids are considered a strong ...

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

A meteor shower known for the speed of its shooting stars is expected to peak on Monday night, according to astronomers.

They assumed a 2.5 km radius comet made of pure water ice coming in perpendicular to the exoplanet's surface, delivering water and thermal energy onto an Earth-like atmosphere of the exoplanet ...

The Eta Aquarids meteor shower will peak Tuesday morning. The Eta Aquarids are debris left by Halley's comet. The meteor ...

Back in 1986, when the comet last swung through the inner solar system, it lost about 1/1,000th of its mass. Rice said that ...

The meteor shower peaks each year in early May as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley's Comet. NASA says the Earth passes through the comet's debris trail twice each year, leading to two ...