The New Year starts with a bang as Quandrantids peaks on Jan. 2 and 3. This is one of the largest meteor showers of the year, ...

Stargazers in the northern hemisphere will have the chance to observe the Draconid meteor shower as it peaks Monday evening ...

Unlike a majority of the meteor showers we see on Earth, the Geminids are the product of an asteroid, not a comet. The reliable shower produces bright meteors associated with the asteroid Phaethon ...

NIGHTFALL had brought welcome relief from the blistering daytime heat of the Azores as we sipped refreshing cocktails and waited for the show to start. We’d come up to the open top deck of our ...

From a scientific perspective, the Kumbh Mela reflects an intricate relationship between astronomy and human biology.

A sharp crash that sounds like glass shattering or ice cracking has been documented as likely the world's first audio recording of a meteorite crash. It came by chance from a doorbell camera, recorded ...

Most meteor showers are named for the constellations ... several times a year it passes through debris left by passing comets — and sometimes asteroids. The source of the Quadrantids is debris ...

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