Stargazers are in for a summer treat as the annual Perseid meteor shower comes to a peak this week. The rush of so-called shooting stars — which aren’t stars at all, but rather debris from ...

"As Earth orbits around the Sun, meteor showers occur when its path crosses a stream of dust particles, leading to a peak in the number of meteors that can be observed. For example, the Perseid ...

Created from debris trails from Halley’s Comet, the eta Aquariids can be seen from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres ...

While airlines do all they can to make flying safe, there is one threat to aviation that even they can't do much about: space ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Many people were disappointed when they could not view the phenomenal Perseid meteor shower because of heavy rain over the northern and central parts of the peninsula. Langkawi ...

The American Meteor Society adds that the Lyrids usually lack persistent trains but can produce "fireballs." A fireball "is ...

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In 2017, Rousseau-Nepton, a member of the Innu Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation in the Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean region of ...

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Astronomer Percival Lowell founded his Arizona stargazing lab in 1894 to aid in his search for life on Mars. While that quest is still ...

The Perseids, an annual showstopper shower known ... to catch the radiant of this celebrated shower. While other meteor showers are best observed with a cup of coffee before dawn, the Draconids ...