Under ideal conditions, about 25 Quadrantid meteors would be visible per hour, according to NASA. While the meteors are known to lack persistent tails, they often produce bright fireballs, which are ...

Love to watch shooting stars? There will be lots of chances to see meteors and fireballs light up the night sky from now through the end of the year. But these could take more planning than some of ...

This story has been updated to correct the date of the meteorite sighting. An unconfirmed meteorite lit up the sky over Michigan Sunday evening, Dec. 7, according to the Michigan Storm Chasers, a ...

A pair of stunning celestial sights are on tap for stargazers this week, as the astronomical events calendar marches into fall. This season is an especially cruel one for Pacific Northwest star gazers ...

Once a year, our planet passes through two separate streams of debris. Discarded by an ancient comet, the debris smashes into our atmosphere at around 65,000 miles per hour and burns brightly, ...

When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

The fall sky-gazing season is officially in full swing with the Orionid meteor shower peak in October and Comet A6 Lemmon increasingly visible in the night sky. The Orionid meteor shower peaks on Oct.

Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...