The Perseid meteor shower takes place each year as Earth travels through the debris shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle.

This rare planetary alignment will be visible from August 10 but will be best viewed later in the month. Here’s everything ...

With the new moon darkening the skies, you’ll have a rare shot at spotting the Milky Way, deep-sky galaxies, and even the ...

The Chicago Sky are off to Indianapolis for a Saturday night matchup with the Indiana Fever, with both teams likely to be ...

One of the most prolific meteor showers of the year will peak overnight on Aug. 12-13, but a bright moon will reduce its ...

The dust causing the Perseids comes from a comet known as Swift-Tuttle, which last passed near Earth in 1992 and orbits the ...

The Perseid meteor shower is set to peak in the night sky this week, bringing with it up to 100 meteors an hour. Here's ...

Stargazers in Qatar are in for a cosmic treat as the Perseids Meteor Shower — often called the best meteor show of the year — ...

Like Karla Coreil, who saw a spectacular shooting star in 2014 while kayaking at night in the Vieques bioluminescent bay in ...

Satellite images showing the Earth illuminated in artificial light are becoming a glaring symbol of ‘light pollution’.

A formation known as the "Dumbbell Nebula" – nicknamed because it looks like a dumbbell – should be easy to spot throughout ...