In fact, Venus will hit its brightest peak of the ... It can be seen all night. Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann will appear between Jupiter and Neptune in February. It also has a magnitude of ...

Spot Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with the naked eye (albeit ... shower originating from an asteroid – 3200 Phaethon – and not a comet. Its fragments burn up as they hit our atmosphere at roughly ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

"When the impacting asteroid or comet hit the lunar surface, it excavated a tremendous volume of rock that was launched into space above the lunar surface before it came crashing back down.

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...