The Southern Taurid meteor shower reaches its peak Nov. 12. Here's how to maximize your chances of seeing a colorful fireball ...

The results of our study provide the first solid evidence that globular clusters formed through multiple star-formation ...

55P/Tempel-Tuttle, discovered by Ernst Tempel and Horace Tuttle in 1865, is a small comet with a nucleus measuring just 2.24 ...

Cloud is expected to cover most of the country, but could clear up later in the week to offer a view of the tailend of the ...

When Earth crashes into the fragments left floating there in space these pieces of comet hit out atmosphere and burn up, leaving shooting stars. Our orbit means that it looks like these meteors, or ...

Given their timing, these shooting stars are sometimes called "Halloween ... Jamie regularly writes for Space.com, TechRadar.com, Forbes Science, BBC Wildlife magazine and Scientific American ...

There were goals-a-plenty in Bermondsey as Worthing eventually overcame the challenge of Comets, who belied their ...

Meteors, or shooting stars, occur when small bits of debris in space burn up in Earth’s atmosphere. The Orionid, Taurid and Leonid meteors are all produced when the planet passes through clouds ...

The debris – space rocks known as meteoroids – collides with Earth's atmosphere at high speed and disintegrates, creating fiery and colorful streaks in the sky, according to NASA. Those resulting ...

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The Taurid meteor shower (Southern Taurids and Northern Taurids) is one of the most exciting times for skywatchers around the ...

Wiggins is playing in honor of his father, who played six seasons in the NBA before becoming a three-time All-Star in Greece.