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Quadrantid meteor shower are set to coincide this weekend. Unfortunately, the "wolf" supermoon may interfere with ...

The Orionids — one of two major meteor showers caused by remnants from Halley’s comet — will peak with the arrival of a new moon, providing an excellent opportunity to see shooting stars without ...

If you had been awake in some parts of the United States on the morning of Nov. 17, 1966, and looked up at the clear sky, you might have gotten the sense that you were moving through space. That early ...

Comet Lemmon and Comet SWAN will be visible in tonight's Halloween sky amid a waxing gibbous moon phase with shooting stars and zooming meteors from the Taurid meteor showers throughout the weekend — ...

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Turn your attention skyward Saturday evening and you should be able to catch the peak of the annual Geminids meteor shower. The yellow dancing streaks light up the night sky every December with ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems. Gaël Chauvin (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy ...

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Best time to see last major meteor shower of the year as it peaks this weekend - Skygazers usually see five to 10 meteors per hour during the height and there's a possibility for outbursts of up to 25 ...

During Tuesday morning’s peak, expect to see up to 20 meteors per hour in ideal viewing conditions, said Thaddeus LaCoursiere, planetarium program coordinator at the Bell Museum in St. Paul, Minnesota ...