Perseids Meteor Shower Set To Peak This Week
The annual Perseids meteor shower happens every August, when Earth travels through the debris left behind by the Swift-Tuttle comet.
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The annual Perseids meteor shower happens every August, when Earth travels through the debris left behind by the Swift-Tuttle comet.
So far this year, the U.S. has seen almost 30,000 wildfires. Worldwide, that's a drop in the bucket.
He spent months in space and now astronaut Reid Wiseman is spending a couple of weeks underwater.
The year is half over, and NASA scientists say it was the hottest six months on record.
SpaceX aims to launch another load of space station supplies for NASA, including a critical docking port needed by new U.S. crew capsules set to debut next year.
The spacecraft Juno had one shot at entering Jupiter's orbit Monday night and they did it.
Braving intense radiation, a NASA spacecraft reached Jupiter on Monday after a five-year voyage to begin exploring the king of the planets.
Since launching in 2011, NASA's Juno spacecraft has been cruising toward the biggest planet in the solar system.
The night of July 4th, a spacecraft flying faster than any skyrocket will rendezvous with the planet Jupiter.
A NASA spacecraft is bound for a Fourth of July encounter with Jupiter in the latest quest to study how the planet formed and evolved.
Coral reefs have almost always been studied up close, by scientists in the water looking at small portions of reefs to gather data and knowledge about the larger ecosystems.
A NASA research scientist has been found dead in Maryland a day after her family reported her missing.
SpaceX pulled off another rocket landing Friday, the third in just under two months.
Starting this weekend, Earth and Mars will be as close as they ever get to one another.
It's 100,000 laps around Earth and counting for the International Space Station.
NASA says it's found more than 1,200 new planets orbiting other stars!
A SpaceX capsule returned to Earth on Wednesday with precious sciencesamples from NASA's one-year space station resident.
For the first time in 10 years, Mercury passed directly between the Earth and sun on Monday.
Earthlings are in for a treat Monday as Mercury makes a relatively rare transit of the sun.
Billions of dollars and decades of work is finally coming together at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.
We all know staring into the sun can be dangerous, but a group of Maryland researchers has been doing just that for 20 years.
The spacecraft that gave us the first close-up views of Pluto now has a much smaller object in its sights.
From space to right now on the ground, NASA researchers are racing to keep up with the world's melting ice.
The National Air and Space Museum is launching a crowdfunding campaign to conserve the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the moon.
