I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

As Comet Halley meteoroids streak through the air at 240,000 km/h, we see the typical meteor flashes. However, after some ...

Twinkling rubble from Earth's most famous comet will rain into our atmosphere during the early morning hours of Saturday, May ...

Thanks to Jupiter's influence, up to 50 “shooting stars” could be visible during this year’s moonless peak of the Eta ...

The closer a comet gets to the sun, the hotter its surface becomes, and the more active it will get. Historically, the vast ...

This trail of debris forms a band of dust in the path of the comet, which triggers a meteor shower as the Earth passes ...

The Eta Aquariid meteors get their name from the point in the sky, called the radiant, where the meteors appear to originate.

Named after the constellation Aquarius, the Eta Aquarids shower is one of two showers created from debris from Halley’s Comet ...

There are plenty of astronomic events coming up this year and a very special one was just over the horizon, or rather flying ...

The Eta Aquariids meteor shower can generate up to 30 meteors per hour in areas with a dark sky and little cloud cover.

Halley’s Comet orbits the sun in the opposite direction of the Earth, completing an orbit roughly once every 76 years.

Visibility of the devil comet will start to fade soon. This is your last chance to see this once-in-a-lifetime comet until ...