This weekend will be the last time Oregonians can see the Lyrid and Eta Aquarids meteor showers overlapping in 2025.

The leftover debris from history's most famous comet will once again streak across the skies over New York. The upcoming ...

Once you remember that the sun also orbits the solar system's common center of mass, it all makes sense. Our sun is wobbling, ...

Perhaps the best known of all comets is Halley, correctly pronounced so that it rhymes with rally, not daily. It is named after the 17th-18th century astronomer Edmond Halley. This ...

Be on the lookout for shooting stars and fireballs as two meteor showers — the Lyrids and the Eta Aquarids — overlap through ...

Scientists discover hydrogen in a rare meteorite, suggesting Earth had the ingredients to make water from the start.

Best viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, the Lyrid meteor shower is the world's oldest known of its kind and reliably occurs ...

One of the planet’s oldest meteor showers, with sightings dating back as far as 687BCE, the burning rocks lit up the sky from Bundaberg in Queensland to central NSW, with some as far south as ...

The upcoming Lyrid meteor shower in April is the next major show of the year. It has been active since April 15, but the ...

"You will begin to see Lyrids after 10 p.m. local time," said Bill Cooke, who leads NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at ...

After a quiet few months for meteor watchers, the night sky is finally lighting up again. The Lyrid meteor shower, the oldest ...