Meteor Shower

The Perseid meteor shower's "celestial pollution" will help astronomers produce extremely clear images of the universe.

Many amateur astronomers believe the Perseid meteor shower is the best sky-watching event year in and year out.

Sunday's Eta Aquarid meteor shower resulted in 30 to 40 meteors per hour.

Comet Pan-STARRS will be visible with the naked eye to people in the Northern Hemisphere starting on Thursday.

Dramatic video shows a meteor bursting in the sky on Friday, the same day a newly discovered asteroid is expected to come close to Earth.

Quadrantids will be zipping overhead from Tuesday to Sunday, but the peak of the shower is expected very early on Thursday, just before dawn.

December is a fantastic month for stargazers. The Geminid meteor shower provided a dazzling spectacle in the night sky this month, and the Ursid meteor shower is about to put on a pretty good show, as well. The Ursids peak in the early-morning hours of Saturday.

Conditions are ripe for a beautiful Geminid display, and a new meteor shower is also poised to make its debut.

This guide provides some helpful advice on where, when and how to watch the Geminids meteor shower in all its glory. The Geminids meteor shower will peak this week, and amateur and professional astronomers are preparing for what many space-watchers say will be the best meteor shower of the year.

To see the shower, just go out to a place with clear, dark skies between midnight Friday and dawn. The meteors will appear to emanate from the Sickle of Leo, a hook-shaped area of stars in the leonine constellation to the east.

This weekend, Earth is going to pass through a cloud of rock and ice left by Halley’s Comet, which gives rise to the Orionid meteor shower.

This weekend, chances are you should be looking up at the night sky. The Orionids meteor shower will be lighting up the night sky with shooting stars on October 20.

Dozens of people reported observing a dazzling, bright light, or lights, streaking across the sky Wednesday night over Arizona and Southern California in what authorities said were likely meteor sightings.

According to a new research precious metals arrived on the earth when a cataclysmic meteor shower pounded our planet 3.9 billion years ago.

Precious metal arrived our planet in a 200 million-year long meteor shower that battered the Earth 3.9 billion years ago, scientists revealed in a new research.