From a flashing blue streak to falling smoke, we now know what caused strange sightings in the sky above Hawaii this week.

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The past few months, we’ve been giving you a quick rundown of the various ways ores form underground; now the time has come ...

It’s December, and we’re in our darkest month. It is also now meteorological winter — the name given to the coldest three ...

As a space reporter for The New York Times, I follow what’s happening in the stars, including eclipses, meteor showers and ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

A prop axe was brought in as crew members set the scene for a horror movie being filmed in Budapest's former psychiatric ...

NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a possible space rock on the surface of Mars. The meteorite's nickname is 'Phippsaksla.' ...

Amateur sky watchers believe a meteorite fell to earth in northeast Michigan Sunday morning, Nov. 23, and many people have posted video online of the space debris streaking overhead.