Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor showers, according to a new ...

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

The meteor shower is caused by dust particles from comet C/1861 G1 (Thatcher). It's expected to produce up to 15 meteors per hour in the night sky between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. on Tuesday.

Shooting stars from the Lyrid meteor shower are actually tiny dust particles that make up the tail of an old comet known as Comet Thatcher. Meteors become visible from Earth when our planet passes ...

This cloud of space dust turns into an increase of meteors in our night skies, which we call the annual Lyrid meteor shower. Comet Thatcher, which passes by the sun every 422 years, is the source ...

What is the difference between a meteor, a meteorite ... They range in size from nearly 1000 kilometres across, to microscopic dust particles. Collisions within the belt can send objects hurtling ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The most incredible meteor shower of the year, Perseids, is happening this week. Meteor showers are nature's nocturnal entertainment. During large showers ...

In the real world, most meteor showers are more pleasant ... As the Earth travels along its orbital path, it runs into those dust trails at the same time every year and the meteors smash into ...

New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.