Astronomy

Watching a meteor shower is an exciting experience. Not many people get the chance to stare up at the heavens to watch a meteor shower. Taking some time out of your busy schedule to watch the...

Among the most spectacular sights of the night sky are shooting stars. Unlike most celestial objects, shooting stars exist only briefly as they blaze across the sky and then suddenly fade....

We've all looked up into the night skies and seen blazing balls of light "falling" into the abyss. If you blink, you might miss it, because it happens quickly. We call these shooting stars, or...

Watch the Perseid Meteor Showers around August 12 by using this step by step guide.

Summer is a great time to head out into your back yard and do some stargazing. You can also head over to a large field or other vacant area to make sure it's dark enough.

Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, two constellations better known as the Big and Little Dippers, represent a pair of bears in the sky. Watching over these two is the constellation Bootes. This...

The Leonid meteor shower is among the most spectacular display of shooting stars each year. A meteor shower occurs when debris in space, often associated with a comet, pass through the...

Look in the sky, and if you're lucky, you can see a streak of light. Commonly known as shooting stars, these streaks aren't stars at all, but meteors. Meteors form from pieces of asteroids or...

If, around August 12th, you go outside between midnight and dawn and look up for a minute or so, you'll most likely spot a meteor streaking through the sky. The August Perseid meteors were the...

Meteor activity diminishes from January to April, but mid-April brings the Lyrid Meteors, first observed in China in 700 BCE. Stargazers can expect to see one or two shooting stars every few minutes.

The last Leonid meteor shower peak came in 1998, but observers report that appreciable activity may continue through 2002. The International Meteor Organization says, "All observing methods should...