Seeing “shooting stars” can take some commitment, but not so the Draconid meteor shower, which peaks on the evening of Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. It's not the most prolific meteor shower of the year, far ...

Two meteor showers will dazzle the night sky this month, along with a brilliant super harvest moon starting this week. The Draconids and the Orionids are the two major meteor showers happening in ...

In case you haven’t heard, which I’m sure many of you have, there’s a promising comet on the way. By promising, I mean it may be bright and bright enough to see with the naked eye, especially in the ...

Being that it’s Halloween this Friday, I thought it only appropriate to tell you about my favorite monsters of the night sky – Draco the Dragon and the head of Medusa, with a hairstyle made of snakes.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Two studies appearing in the Aug. 25 issue of the journal Nature provide new insights into a cosmic accident that has been streaming X-rays toward ...