Amateur astronomers no longer have to brave the frigid winter cold or humid summer nights to make important discoveries like in the past.

Throughout history, humans have been fascinated by falling stars, fleeting arcs of light streaking across the night sky. In some cultures, shooting stars were believed to be the souls of the recently ...

Meteoroid streams are coherent groups of debris originating primarily from cometary or asteroidal fragmentation, which travel through the Solar System along similar orbital paths. As Earth intersects ...

The meteoroid stream of long-period comet Thatcher (white line). Each meteoroid moved on its own orbit and created a Lyrid shower meteor when it hit Earth after approaching the orbit of Earth (blue ...

The Perseids meteor shower peaks August 12–13, with the best viewing between midnight and 3 a.m. An 84% full Moon will reduce visibility, making faint meteors harder to see. Viewers may still catch 10 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Perseid meteor shower will start in the evening on July 17, bringing thousands of shooting stars to skies across the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s everything you need to ...

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Good afternoon. I'm WVTM 13 meteorologist Taylor Soo and one of the biggest meteor showers of the year peaks this weekend. It's the perseid meteor shower. The exact peak is actually going to be Sunday ...

The planet Mercury is being pelted regularly by bits of dust from an ancient comet, a new study has concluded. This has a discernible effect in the planet’s tenuous atmosphere and may lead to a new ...

A strange glow in the night sky, known as the "zodiacal light," is formed differently from how scientists first thought. This bizarre glow is caused by minuscule particles of dust named meteoroids ...