It’s a packed week for stargazers, as both the Beaver moon and the Taurid meteor shower are expected to peak later this week.

An autumn meteor shower yearly responsible for “Halloween fireballs” may pose a small impact threat to Earth. What is the ...

Debris from Comet Encke creates two annual meteor showers, but it might also pose a small risk to Earth. Scientists are investigating ...

Why is the moon orange tonight? November beaver full moon will shine for days as the biggest supermoon of 2025. Here's when ...

The Orionids, which began Oct. 2, will continue to be active until Nov. 12, 2025. The meteor shower will peak Oct. 22-23.

Of the three November meteor showers, Leonids should be the most active. It is fed by the Tempel-Tuttle Comet, which can produce some dense debris clouds, resulting in very strong showers. Leonids is ...

The Leonids once produced "one of the greatest meteor storms in living memory. Rates were as high as thousands of meteors per minute during a 15-minute span" on Nov. 17, 1966." ...

Each autumn, the night sky over the United States becomes the scene of one of the most striking astronomical phenomena of the ...

The shooting stars are a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, which the Earth hits every year. The meteors are also some of ...

Unique to the Orionids, NASA notes, the meteors seen during this shower are particularly fast and bright. Furthermore, they ...

The Draconid meteor shower starts on Monday, Oct. 6. Here's what you need to know about when it starts, peaks and ends.

Some Minnesotans were treated to an astral spectacle late Wednesday night, as what appeared to be a meteor flashed across the ...