The 2025 Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak overnight Monday, April 21, into the morning of Tuesday, April 22, according to NASA. During the Lyrids ' peak, 10 to 20 fast and bright meteors can be ...

The reason why the Lyrid meteor shower remains famous is its history. It occasionally produces a meteor storm, with several ...

The Lyrid meteor shower is set to peak tonight, and while not one of the best of the year, you'll be able to see up to a dozen meteors per hour.

A spectacular meteor shower is set to peak over the skies of the UK on Monday night and Tuesday morning, with up to 100 ...

The first recorded sighting of a Lyrid meteor shower goes back to 687 B.C. in China. Observers there said the Lyrids were "falling like rain." Earthsky said that in 1982, American observers saw an ...

SEATTLE — When you think of meteor showers, you may think of the impressive Perseids in August. But April had a falling star display of its own as well. The Lyrid meteor shower peaked Monday night.

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

Though meteorites fall with the same frequency around the world, scientists say, they are especially easy to spot in places like this, where they stand out against the beige expanse. Finding the ...

The Lyrid meteor shower peaks in the middle of April every year, this year falling on Monday night and Tuesday, April 21 and ...

It occasionally produces a meteor storm, with several hundred meteors falling per hour – and has done so for millennia. Back in 1803, a journalist in Richmond, Virginia, estimated an hourly rate ...