A newly discovered meteor stream may be the smoking gun of an asteroid slowly disintegrating under the Sun’s intense heat.

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these meteors. Most movies and news alerts focus on ...

Mountain View, CA - Asteroid Day, June 30th - What do astrophysicist Steven Hawking, Queen guitarist Brian May and the country of Luxembourg have in common? They’re all key figures in Asteroid Day - a ...

Discovered in 2017 by Pan-STARRS atop Halealakalā on Maui, ʻOumuamua was the first confirmed interstellar visitor. Its Hawaiian name means “a messenger from afar arriving first,” and it appeared to be ...