Fireball over Arizona / California border region

A bright fireball streaked across the sky over Arizona and California at 09:21 UTC (01:21 PST)…

Very bright fireball explodes over northern Germany

A very bright fireball exploded over northern Germany around 20:56 UTC (21:56 CET) on November 6,…

Asteroid 2017 VE flew past Earth at 0.88 LD, a day before discovery

A newly discovered asteroid designated 2017 VE flew past Earth at 0.88 LD / 0.00227 AU…

Hubble sees nearby asteroids photobombing distant galaxies

Some of our solar system's asteroids have photobombed deep images of the universe taken by NASA's…

ALMA discovers cold dust around nearest star

The ALMA Observatory in Chile has detected dust around the closest star to the Solar System,…

Return of the Comet: 96P spotted by ESA, NASA satellites

The ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA mission SOHO — short for Solar and Heliospheric Observatory…

Intergalactic plasma filaments confirmed?

On the Space News series, a clear picture of cosmic scale phenomena has emerged: networks of…

New research looks at how ‘cosmic web’ of filaments alters star formation in galaxies

Astronomer Gregory Rudnick sees the universe crisscrossed by something like an interstellar superhighway system. Filaments —…

Night sky guide for November 2017

November brings us peaks of 2 notable meteor showers, Northern Taurids (Class II) on November 11…

Saturn’s radiation belts: A stranger to the solar wind

The high energy proton population in the environment of Saturn develops independently of the solar wind…