Meteor showers are the product of comets or asteroids dropping debris on their orbit. Once these debris streams cross the ...

For centuries, space rocks have fascinated us. Space and its elements have always been mysterious. Astronomy is riddled with complex jargon that many of us don’t understand. However, we often keep ...

This one is active until November 20 and will peak next Wednesday night. It’s a weaker shower, producing around 10 meteors ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that ...

• Comet – A mass of ice, rock and dust which often has a tail. The tail is made up of water vapor, dust and various gases which vaporize and grows as it gets closer to the sun. • Asteroid – A body ...

Unique to the Orionids, NASA notes, the meteors seen during this shower are particularly fast and bright. Furthermore, they ...

The Orionids will peak with the arrival of a new moon, providing an excellent opportunity to see shooting stars without ...

October 31, 2023, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute is proud to announce a new book by SETI Institute meteor astronomer Dr. Peter Jenniskens. Called "Atlas of Earth's Meteor Showers," this ...

Meteor showers are always best seen with the naked eye. Meteors are, in general, pretty fast as they burn through the ...

A new study reveals that the asteroid belt is slowly disappearing, offering insights into its long-term fate and what this means for our solar system.

Three meteor showers are active over Michigan skies, with peaks approaching. And a pair of comets are joining the show.

From the balcony of his family’s downtown London, Ontario apartment, five-year-old Siddharth Patel would spend nights gazing ...