When you look up at the night sky and spot a bright streak of light racing across it, you’re witnessing one of nature’s most mesmerising events — a meteor, often called a “shooting star.” Despite the ...

NOTE: ZHR, zenithal hourly rate, the approximate number of shower-related meteors an observer would see under ideal conditions; Max Date, the date at which the highest flux of meteors is normally ...

A FOX6 tower camera captured an apparent meteor over Milwaukee on Wednesday. A meteor is a streak of light that appears in the sky when a small piece of space debris, often called a meteoroid, enters ...

(NEXSTAR) – If the supermoon wasn’t enough, October is treating skygazers to another celestial delight – the peak of the Orionid meteor shower. The Orionids occur when Earth passes through the trail ...

Exactly 150 summers ago, stargazers were admiring a beautiful new comet. Discovered in mid-July 1862 by Americans Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle, the new object became favorably positioned high in the ...