Astronomers estimate the Moon drifting farther away from Earth each year could one day leave the planet unstable. Formed about 4.5 billion years ago, the Moon has been steadily creeping away though at varying speeds....
A meteor briefly lit up the sky behind Toronto’s CN Tower and above Niagara Falls overnight. The European Space Agency shared video of the meteor in the early hours of Saturday morning, named #C8FF042 and around one metre in...
Sunspot AR2816 erupted during the late hours of April 19th (2342 UT), producing a strong M1-class solar flare. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash. This is one of the strongest flares of...
Authorities this week confirmed that a large fireball streaked its way across the skies of multiple states, a sight that was reportedly accompanied by a loud booming noise as well.
As many as several dozen people...
Nasa has warned of an asteroid bigger than the London Eye set to zoom past Earth this week.
According to Nasa’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies, the massive space rock named 2013 WV44 will make its closest approach to Earth at...
In the 1998 Hollywood blockbuster Armageddon, Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck race to save the Earth from being pulverized by an asteroid. Next year we will experience it live!
NASA plans to crash a spacecraft traveling...
NASA said on Monday that its mission to deflect an asteroid in deep space using a spacecraft is targeting a late November launch.
Known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the U.S. space agency will...
A bright fireball streaked through the night sky over Sardinia, Italy at 21:53 UTC on October 8, 2023. The fireball was recorded by two Sardinian Prisma cameras.
Based on the results of the calculations made by...
If you keep up with celestial events, you may already know that there’s more than one type of eclipse. North America won’t get another total solar eclipse until May 2022, but on June 10, 2021,...
Solar activity reached moderate levels in 24 hours to 00:30 UTC on January 30, 2022, due to a long-duration M1.1 solar flare at 23:32 UTC on January 29 from Region 2936 (N17E05, Dkc/beta).
The region produced numerous...