Ever wonder where that shooting star came from, or how it got to be in your sky?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meteor showers happen every year and are a spectacular sight. Jim Vajda/Flickr, CC BY Have you ever been out at night and seen a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) As the director of the Peters Observatory at Hamilton College, I have seen many ...