A newly discovered meteor stream may be the smoking gun of an asteroid slowly disintegrating under the Sun’s intense heat.

Long before telescopes revealed an unruly Solar System, Dante Alighieri imagined something terrible falling from the heavens. In his 14th-century Inferno, the falling object was Lucifer, the Lord of ...

A meteor streaked across Tasmania’s night sky on Sunday, treating stargazers to a spectacular light show captured on camera. TassieCams footage captured the meteor streaking across the skies of ...

While visible in both hemispheres, the Eta Aquarids are most striking from the southern tropics. In northern skies, these ...

This annual meteor shower occurs as Earth passes through the dusty debris left behind by Halley’s Comet as it journeys around ...

The best way to see a meteor shower is to go to a dark location outside, away from light pollution, and look up at the sky.

May’s sky features not one but two full moons as well as the dazzling Eta Aquarids meteor shower. Here’s when to look up for the month’s most striking alignments.

The Lyrids meteor shower will be active from April 14 to April 30, 2026. Peak activity for the Lyrids will occur between April 21 and April 22. Viewers can expect to see 10-20 meteors per hour during ...

The Lyrids meteor shower is underway and will soon peak.

Lyrid meteors radiate from near the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra the Harp. You don’t need to identify Vega or Lyra in order to watch the Lyrid meteor shower. But you do need to know when ...