The annual Eta Aquariid meteor shower, linked to Halley's Comet, will peak overnight on May 5 and 6. The annual Eta Aquariid ...

Arguably, the highlight for astrophotographers this month is comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN)’s brush with the Pleiades open cluster to ...

Based in Somerset, southwest England, astrophotographer and night-sky conservationist Josh Dury has dedicated his career to ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

create streaks of light in the night sky as they burn up in Earth's atmosphere. These streaks are known as shooting stars, even though they are not stars at all – which is why some astronomers o ...

Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night ... fills the sky with 'shooting stars' in ...

The best viewing time is around 2 a.m. Here's how, where, and when to experience these 'shooting star ... night of April 22, 2025, displaying a maximum of about 18 meteors per hour in a clear sky.

This week, the Lyrid meteor shower has taken over the night sky, casting shooting stars and fireballs darting overhead. And NASA says that Messier 3 — a sprawling expanse of dazzling stars some ...

On the night of 22 April, watch out for shooting stars speeding outwards from this region and streaking across the sky. The Lyrid shooting stars are specks of space dust burning up in the ...

“Kind of relax your eyes and just scan back-and-forth,” Laurin said because “meteors can come from any point in the sky.” By about 10 p.m., he said shooting stars should be visible. Throughout the ...