This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...

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The month of February 2026 provides skywatchers with exceptional celestial events which will take place throughout the entire ...

February kicks off with the snow moon and the Alpha Centaurid meteor shower. Here's when you can catch both ...

Is it a meteor shower? Space debris? No, it's something much, much worse. Our nearest neighbor is a full Moon no more. The Moon exploded and splintered into millions of fragments. Enormous lunar rocks ...

From Mercury’s rare appearance to NASA’s Artemis II launch window, here’s everything to watch in the skies this month.

Victorians have woken to space junk from one of Elon Musk’s satellites falling through the sky. At about 5.27am on Tuesday ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during February 2026 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

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A stronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history ...

A small asteroid could strike the Moon in 2032, sparking moonquakes, glowing craters and meteor showers, while scientists debate whether to stop it or watch a rare cosmic experiment unfold.