Three bright planets and the moon. If you’re up before the sun on May 3 and 4, you can see a lovely crescent moon with Saturn ...

For the best viewing, NASA recommends looking straight skyward while lying on the ground with your feet toward the east.

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

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will dazzle stargazers this weekend, reaching its peak from the evening of May 4 to the early ...

Following is a summary of current science news briefs. Explainer-The Eta Aquariid meteor shower: When is it and what to expect? Meteors will be streaking across the sky as Earth passes through dusty ...

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

When is the best time for viewing the meteor shower? Where is the best place to see it? Answers to your common questions.

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

Ten years ago, Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) flipped the switch on its global network of robotic telescopes. The ...

Throughout May you'll have several chances to see shooting stars in the night sky, but a few specific days have the best ...

This year's spectacle will be more impressive than usual, as the Earth passes through a concentrated clump of 3,000-year-old ...