While the annual shower usually makes for a sleepy showing, it has been known to produce fantastic outbursts in the past ...

October's celestial events include everything from a supermoon to a major NASA launch sprinkled with falling stars and comets.

While we are fascinated (sometimes alarmed) by space rocks hurtling towards Earth, we often fail to distinguish between asteroids, meteoroids, and meteors. Here's a rundown of their differences.

Earth has a second moon. Alas, it is to be but for just a short time! It is a small near-Earth asteroid about 10 meters ...