Skywatchers could see up to 10 brilliant meteors every hour as Earth passes through debris from Comet Encke, although ...

Debris from Comet Encke creates two annual meteor showers, but it might also pose a small risk to Earth. Scientists are ...

The Southern Taurid meteor shower peaks Nov. 4, with a "swarm year" doubling fireball activity—but there's a catch.

The “super” part comes from astronomy. A supermoon occurs when the moon is near perigee — the point in its orbit when it’s ...

While the Orionids aren’t the most prolific meteor shower of the year, they are incredibly fast movers. They enter the atmosphere at about 41 miles per second (about 150,000 miles per hour), heating ...

Each autumn, the night sky over the United States becomes the scene of one of the most striking astronomical phenomena of the ...

The meteor was spotted during the annual Southern Taurid meteor shower, which is active between September and November. Known ...

One of the two branches of the Taurids meteor stream, the Southern Taurids can occasionally produce very bright meteors. In ...