The Fox drama is heading into its series finale with an asteroid hitting Austin, which may sound like something you'd only see in a screenplay — but was actually inspired by a real-life meteor ...

"I expect this to produce a real storm (1,000 meteors per hour or more) over the United States," Lyytinen wrote in the year 2000. Other meteor scientists agree with Lyytinen that an encounter with ...

meteor visible in Jaws (1975), courtesy Universal ... was the Jaws shooting star real?

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 ...

But real meteor-heads look forward to December when it’s time for the Geminids, the strongest annual shower in terms of rates with more than 100 shooting stars zipping by every hour. Astronomers ...

The Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks on the mornings of May 5 and 6. The meteor shower is visible with the naked eye, but telescopes or binoculars enhance the experience. It's almost time to look ...

To get a hint at when to watch, you can use a meter that relies on data from the Global Meteor Network showing when real-time fireball activity levels increase in the coming days. There is a ...

“Meteor showers are named after which constellation ... finding a meteor big enough to make it to the ground would be the real clincher," Kareta said. "The problem is that the Perseids, like ...

Patrick Gomez is an Executive Editor at Entertainment Weekly. Formerly at People magazine and The A.V. Club, the Critics Choice and Television Critics Association member has appeared on 'Today ...