Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meteors, sometimes poetically, if not terribly accurately, called shooting stars, are the luminous displays that occur when cosmic ...

Perseid meteors will light up the night skies this week in a spectacle that is only rivalled by the Geminids in December. The Perseids are an annual meteor shower that, weather permitting, can produce ...

Lyrids is a fairly typical meteor shower, while the Eta Aquariids shower is known for its fast-moving meteors that leave long-lasting trails. We’ve had good reasons to look up at the skies lately: the ...

A double meteor shower peak will occur this week — but sky-gazers might have a difficult time catching a glimpse of the cosmic activity. The Alpha Capricornids are active from early July to mid-August ...

Small-town newspapers and radio weathermen once told entire communities exactly when meteor showers would peak, no app required. A single night of meteor watching cost nothing but gas money, unlike ...