Every year in August, the Perseid meteor shower gi...  ...e falling stars.1) Find a place that's dark. Some meteors are bright and easy to spot, others fainter. The...  ...u can see, the better your chances of seeing more meteors .3) Be outside after local midnight - literally, h...  ...eometry of the shower mak...

The Tunguska Event was a huge explosion that occurred in a remote area of Siberia on June 30, 1908. It was a thousand times as powerful as the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Scientists aren't certain what happened, but the...

Astronomers have discovered a new source of meteor showers, very likely from a comet, that may be coming to an Earth near you. While explaining why we shouldn't panic at the news, Dr. Phil Plait gives us a great analogy...

Tonight's event is predicted to be "strong" with a...  ...t is predicted to be "strong" with a couple dozen meteors per hour visible in the United States, several hu...  ...rength. One estimate is over one hundred thousand meteors an hour, but another, done as the storm abated, e...  ...ated, estimated in excess...